Did God create Man or Man create God?

DOES GOD EXIST?

Here is one of the most controversial and most debated issue that exist from the day man 'created' god. Many would have asked this question at some point at some time in life- 'Does God Exist?' and they would have got an answer be it either positive or negative. Well in today's world religion plays an important role everywhere be it politics, education, various issues and even terrorism.

Why Religion was founded?

There are many religions although Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Buddhism are the most followed ones. Scientist predict that humans had been living on this planet for about 70,000 to 1,00,000 years. But even the oldest of the religions are not older than 5000 years. What made humans to create religions, create god, rituals, practices, etc. From my understanding and experience HUMANS ALWAYS NEED QUICK SOLUTIONS TO QUESTIONS. The solution need not be perfectly correct but it must be satisfying to all and SIMPLE. There are a lot of unanswered questions about universe, nature, etc. Early humans who were not so intelligent as we are today(This might be true about us too when future generations see us as nomadic) were so much fascinated by all the things around them. To give an explanation they created GOD. Then to add spice to the concept, they brought all the doctrines, practices which we see in today's religions. For every question for which they can't find a solution, they attributed it to majestic effect of GOD, because the solution is SIMPLE and satisfying. However they also made some assumptions. GOD has no beginning, no end, he can simultaneously listen to all of us inside our heads, he answers prayers, he gives us what we ask, he punishes us when we do wrong.. blah blah blah.. By adding more things they gave more and more powers to god. To make things more interesting they created a nemesis for god and its satan or devil or whatever they term it. Every evil or bad thing is associated with him.

Ok now everybody thinks that everything is fine and religions teach morals and are making humans 'good' but now comes the main issue- there is not only one religion alone in this world. There are a lot of them! Religious texts which speak about many things does not convey good about the non followers or followers of other religions. This automatically makes the staunch followers of a religion to develop enmity for other religions. This has even lead to terrorism in today's world! Consider a normal human behaviour- A person forms a group to promote his ideologies. What does he want? More members in his group!! That's what religions wanted to. They wanted to make people follow them. The more the people follow the more stronger they become. Every religion talks about brotherhood among its own religious group members but not on humanity as whole. They consider the non followers as evil, cruel, etc.. This clearly shows the motive. Not to forget about different facts within a religion itself. They have their own fight inside too. Even though there are good things done in the name of religion, i feel that there are more bad things happening and going to happen.

Religion vs Science

Speaking about the relationship between science and religion! One of my favourite topics and every time it makes to laugh at all those folks who say the latest scientific facts had been stated long back in their religious texts. Then why would anyone reinvent and announce them? The time when religions were found, became the dark age of humanity. This was the period in which most scientific practices were abolished, banned since it questioned the religions texts. There were a lot of ancient mathematicians, scientists in ancient Rome, Greece who did a lot of very interesting work and did many inventions but all of a sudden after them there was a long break until Galileo, Copernicus and others showed themselves. Why is this gap? Who created it? The culprit is the religion! Even in the medieval times if someone had to do scientific work they had to go underground to save their heads. This shows the stupidity and arrogance of religious dogma which says it should not be questioned. Simply ridiculous because most of the findings, inventions, discoveries come from questioning which was prohibited by religions. However humans came out of the darkness to find the truth in science. Now when science has taken an upper hand religions claim they are scientific if not superior to science. I don't understand how these people could relate scientific discoveries which required a lot of intelligence to religious dogma which is nothing but stupidity. No wonder some religions today proclaim themselves as scientific religion!

Now coming back to the most important concept in religion- ' GOD CREATED UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT'. This is what believed by most of people today. I almost laugh at their ignorance and blind belief. Have you people heard of scientific discoveries today? What is universe? Our universe is composed of billions and billions of galaxies with each galaxy consisting of billions and billions of stars. Can you imagine the number? Now consider the distance between stars! Its in 'Light years'. Light has the fastest speed today(may be there might be some particle in future which can travel faster than light) and it takes years for it to travel between stars! Then imagine the colossal size of universe.

Now what is the basic ingredient that makes all these? Its atoms and particles inside them which are very very minute that it takes most powerful microscope to view them. Now there are even theories emerging to show the composition of the particles like protons, electrons themselves. Science is fascinating.

Human intelligence had grown but along with it also their stupidity too! Despite all these proved facts most of the humans still attribute all these to unproven 'God'. Ridiculous isn't it? Even the scientific discoveries are attributed to god. The religious folks not only relate science to them but also the scientists who are behind it. They claim that most scientists are theists. They do not leave even the greatest scientist 'Albert Einstein' himself claiming that he believes in 'God' although he clearly states he does not believe in personal 'God' and used the term in simply metaphorical ways. Recently today's greatest scientist 'Stephen Hawking' stated the same about universe against the existence of GOD. After this i can see a lot of hatred comments against him and ridiculously even about his scientific knowledge! This virtual blindness is the result of the blind faith in religion. The difference between religion and science is wide. Science always accepts mistakes and it continuously changes, improves and relies only verified solutions. Religion on the other hand is clearly dogma, does not change. For instance newtons theories are challenged by Einstein's and are even replaced by Einstein's theories. This is science. But can you ever change a religious text which states god created universe in 7 days into something like it took 8 days? Never! Clearly religion cannot even come near science and there are light years distance between them.

Politics and Religion

Well if the religions do not benefit science they do benefit Politics! Most politicians are concerned about their vote banks and nothing else( remember the group example i said. It applies even here). To attract large vote banks they have a simple way- Religion. Even in America which is a considered as a hot bed for science the motto is 'God bless America'. Can any USA president openly criticize religion nor any scientist would escape criticism if he criticizes religion. Certainly not. Politics is one of the major reasons why religion is still thriving today.

The Blind Superstitions

What about the ridiculous stories told by religions. Worst thing is people even believe in them! The concept of heaven, hell, God flying, recreation, concept of soul, all are noting but ridiculous. The stories in religious texts do not even use slightest of brain! I feel they are even hard to believe than fairy tales. Also we should not question them. Ridiculous isn't it. Most religions say God is responsible for our actions but we will be pushed to hell if we do wrong. Does this makes sense? If god does everything why should we get punishment? Worse thing is about prayers. Whatever we need we can pray to god and he will provide. Its awful that many people believe in prayers more than they believe in themselves.

Cruel things done by religion

Now speaking about cruelties done by religion- It starts from long back when no followers were persecuted, the crusades, conflicts between religions to present day's terrorism. Consider two people, two staunch followers of different religions, both don't have any enmity but they might hate each other just because religion! There had been a lot of bloodsheds in the name of religion if not the most. Certain 'self proclaimed' intelligent speakers claim that atheism had even lead to bloodshed citing to two most dictators namely Hitler and Stalin. I request them to use some logic. Hitler and Stalin did not do cruelties in the name of Atheism or just because they are atheist. But many cruelties are the strait effects of religion. I think people are witnessing many and I need not provide examples. The worst thing is how apostate are treated by religions. People do have their own options and rights and religions should not override them. Many religions even persecute apostates. Is this what religions proclaims as good?

The future of Religions

Do we need God and religion these days? Definitely not! Do god exist and whether anyone had seen him?- Definitely not! Humans had found better solutions to questions but these religions are like bad old habits. Its difficult to get rid of them but ultimately we should and we will! There is no space for blind faiths in this era of scientific truths. Most people culminate religions in the mind of their young at an early age. Even worse most education institutions have religions as their backbone and spread them in the young minds. Teach kids to believe in themselves rather than believing in non-existent 'God' or 'prayers'. If this is stopped I am sure religions would be wiped off faster.