Bullmoose Blog

Jan 26, 2005 at 04:40 o\clock

Religion as the product of human uncertainty

Have you ever walked out of a lecture believing the speaker was a complete academic introvert? someone who toils in abstract and brilliant flourishes of inately simple ideas?  We'll I did. And just as two other people talked to me on the elevator down -we joked and made fun of his logic in regard to an element of his talk ( the neccesity of a sacrificial lamb when faced with great uncertainty).  We joked -we made fun of him. Why?  Because he was the sacrificial lamb!  Our own disregard for his intellectual perponderances led us back to one thing -the simple force of human nature that we bemoaned.  Was this a clever trick? Perhaps.  However, when you sit alone with those ideas you become afraid.  Afraid because you can no longer sacrifice the messenger -you've been effectively sealed by logic into a truth you cannot accept.

I cannot for certain say that I am corrected in regard to my philosophy - I can say I'm troubled.  I can say God is providing me with an intense discourse in philosophy.  I am provided a problem that I am expected to solve -to understand - to provide a rest to....such is a sad feeling when the soul is embattled on many fronts.