This one was inspired by Amanda Page (If you’re reading this, Amanda, I love you and I want to read your book.)

 

I have a awesome coworker who’s an atheist. We got to talking the other day. He said something like, “There’s really no way we can find out what’s true.”

You know what? I agree.

With all the voices out there, and our upbringing, and our limited perspective, there’s no way to really know with certainty the truth about the world, where it came from, the existence of God, or who we are — on our own.

Even if you depart from everything your parents believe,

  1. you’re still biased to believe many things that may not be true. And
  2. there are other people out there leaving what they grew up with to maybe try out what you just left.

And just because everybody might be flocking to one belief system, does the majority always rule?
(Just take a look at the curve on the surface of our planet back in Galileo’s day.
Or the curve on your chemistry test.)

From the perspective of space, the earth is a sphere. From the perspective of earth, the earth is... still a sphere. (The moon and sun even look like spheres from earth. Fun fact: The Inuits hypothesized that the Earth was round far before Galileo did.) Image source: thednsservers.us

From the perspective of space, the earth is a sphere. From the perspective of earth, the earth is… still a sphere. (The moon and sun even look like spheres from earth. Oh, and, fun fact, for that very reason, the Inuits hypothesized that the Earth was round far before Galileo did.)
Image source: thednsservers.us

How many mental gymnastics would one have to do to find out which religion is really true? It would take at least your whole earthly life (if not many reincarnations…).

And even if we do reincarnate, there’s no deadline.

So I probably wouldn’t put in the effort to search.