Coming and Going

You are what is messing up the atheistic equation. While it is inarguably true that 0+0=0, you are just as inarguably not nothing. You have a sum value that may be nothing more than .0000001, but that makes you something. That you are something changes the math, so to speak, because we must now account for the factors which create the sum. It is understandable to now ask, What difference does it make? Why even be bothered with it? Two questions help to provide an answer: Where did I come from? Where am I going? Even for those who are content to accept death as the final nothingness, the question of why we were born to die remains. It seems simple at first. I was born because of sexual intercourse between my parents, and so on. I have no problem with the Darwinian theory of evolution because it never denies First Cause. I have no problem with the Big Bang theory of creation because it never denies First Cause. Religion has taken upon itself the task of defining First Cause resulting in the predictably arcane anthropomorphization of God. Just as a reasonable person matures to the point of not accepting the stork as a reasonable explanation for where babies come from, so must one’s theology mature to the point that a humanlike deity fails to intelligently explain where we come from and where we are going. J. B. Phillip’s book title says it best, “Your God Is Too Small”.