Deity and the faith of man (2)

In his letter Gerie Cowie speaks of “the great lenghts that atheists, secularists and humanists will go through in order to desperately try to disprove...” I must say the unproven “existence of God”.

I would like to know precisely what “great lenghts” he is referring to. As far as I know all we are doing is discussing here, we are but a loyal opposition who until a not too distant past, since we tend to question the beliefs of the majority, were hardly allowed a voice.

At the end of the day whether one claims to believe or not to believe, the faithful are only being faithful and scientists are still doing their research, so in a certain sense we are all agnostic, in the sense that we know that we don’t really know.

As such my grudge is not against the concept of a God, but religion, especially when mankind invents and decides what offends God and what doesn’t. Who knows? I sometimes ask myself, maybe there is a God who created the universe after all, but when we die we just die, mankind is no more important than His other creatures. But, we just had to invent a heaven, hell, reincarnation and all that other stuff as well, didn’t we?

Mr Cowie, who wrote “so, to all those people who will no doubt be commenting negatively against this letter, bring it on!”, need not feel so threatened.

However, I do find it rather hypocritical of him who would not have anyone mock the Bible, to have a go at other available authors and internet information that begs to differ. How else is one supposed to broaden one’s horizons?