{ 2008 05 11 }

The Arrogance Of Faith

For some, faith is the ultimate display of humility and submissiveness to a higher power whose existence has never been objectively substantiated. The phenomenon is utterly bizarre due to the fact that educated, intelligent and thinking individuals also have the predilection towards such surrender to a random force. Despite the way they process information and empirical data, even the smartest seem to voluntarily give up their skepticism and inquisitiveness all in the name  of convenience and  blindly submitting to an unsubstantiated claim.

On the assumption that a god exists, the humility is only directed towards that being. Isn’t it supposedly ironic that a being so  powerful and omnipresent would require absolute submission despite little to no evidence of his existence. Sure, christians always use the retarded Oh, look at how pretty  the blue sky is! Look at the birds, the other animals and the trees! We live in a world  of beauty… ERGO, god exists argument as if it holds water as a point. Even if a god created everything, it says nothing about the christian god being the one who created  it. That christian god is more of a human construct that only happens to be prominent now because of the war-mongering Romans and the colonizing Europeans.

This is were the faith is stretched. Faith is already a big stretch in itself. It’s akin to believing an egomaniac of a god who requires constant adoration, praise and prayers from his loyal subjects. He requires it despite not even proving his existence in a form that can be appreciated by everyone. In the end, faith is simply a crutch for arrogance used by many to brandish around as fake armor  of morality and decency. Faith is nothing but an excuse – and  yes, surrender — to further inquiry. It is a feel-good  option that is laced with intellectual laziness and haughtiness that fails to deliver on empirical standards.

The faithful, despite their claims of humility, are just as arrogant as everybody else that they tag as arrogant. They wield their faith as an unquestionable concept despite its obvious logical flaws and use it to rebut the better argued points that are grounded on grammar and common sense but are not imbued with the mystic abilities of faith. The concept of god was created by man and faith is the absolute manifestation of that arrogance.

Man doesn’t want to be alone, thus, he created god in many images. He refused to believe the more gloomy yet more likely reality that his god may not really be extant at all. Man is arrogant in not conceding to the depression of a lonely existence – and as we see now, faith is being used as an excuse for patronage for the ideal and exaltation for the divine. In the end, man is simply worshiping his own  model – his  own  paradigm. And of course, he will never accept that reality.

 

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Posted by benj on Sunday, May 11th, 2008, at 3:17 pm, and filed under atheism.

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