LEAVE GOD ALONE?

“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”…Elie Wiesel.

 

The Basics.

Hopefully it is safe for an adult to admit his or her jealousy of the lives of little kids, especially those whose parents know their value and make sacrifices to take good care of. There is this carefree, worriless and peaceful way about how they do, their innocence makes them unbelievably unaware of any harm that may be lurking around the corner, and their dreams soars higher than the heights eagles can attain.

Growing up then exposes them to realities that could streamline or crush their optimism and their fantasy world of unlimited possibilities, depending on the degree of their enthusiasm and the amount of information they have and that has grown within them in proportion to their faith and conviction.

The inability of most people to cross the line of success naturally makes them defensive, looking for alibis, excuses and possibly someone to pass the blame like a flaming torch or a lousy baton of a team that already lost a relay race.

“The welfare of people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants”…Albert Camus.

 

Seriously?

A school of thought authoritatively believes that there is a very high tendency that God is impressed with the world so far, concerning the initiative man has taken to improve it, making it more habitable. Although the inventions and the discoveries that has further fostered developments are as a result of divine inspiration and intervention.

Well, not surprisingly, another school of thought tells us that God is very displeased with how the existence of man has intensely negatively impacted the Earth, from sin to environmental degradation, Terrorism and most of all unremorseful blasphemy.

Evidently of course life is as mysterious as they come, just for the sake of the proof of logic and higher knowledge have scientists virtually succeeded in coining a name and definition for every possible thing, scenario and occurrence that consistently riddles the world through and through. Only inquisitive people however have the capacity to exhaust their hypothetical justifications to the point where they reluctantly admit the vagueness they perceive of their findings and ultimately the future.

 

Principles.

After carefully researching and utilizing the guiding principles such as gravity, leverage and human attitudes that govern the Earth, we eventually blame God when things do not pan out as we anticipated in the first place. For instance, when natural disasters such as earthquakes, cyclones and tsunamis occur different classes of people appear to the thought fore like agents of criticisms of varying dimensions. A group will start to pray, well it is a colossal occurrence for us to have it inculcated in us to be well aware that there exists a higher being we are answerable to, another faction does a research to diagnose or and perhaps justifies the happening, and naturally there always exist a group that criticizes and even condemn the act which they never had any control over.

 

“It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear that engendered religion”…Albert Einstein.

The Reality.

It is definitely obscure and also very controversial to call natural disasters an act of God, but scientists have an explanation for them as usual. For example, Earthquakes are caused by faulting, a sudden lateral or vertical movement of rock along a rupture (break) surface. Volcanoes are caused when the upper mantle of the Earth or lower crust melts magma forms; a volcano is essentially a vent through which this magma and dissolved gasses it contains are discharged. So this further keeps us asking funny questions like, can we blame God for a very sunny day which becomes too bright that it burns our eyes, or for the rain that falls so hard and floods unleash?

It is then so crucial for us to gladly adopt optimism in embracing the world as it comes or as it is. Defying gravity by inventing the Airplane, processing our foods to stay healthy, training doctors to save our lives, making shoes to protect our feet and so on. About the sun, some innovative people use its source for solar power, the water from the heavy rainfall is channeled to the right place to further hydro-power, and we can reduce the flood effect by making standard drainages.

The world is a great place due to the efforts of our forefathers, and yet it is about to be a lot better due to our new findings, so in the wake of new realities however, it appears to be imperative that we leave God alone and face the truth before our own very eyes.

 

Thank you very much,

Akin Abimbola (akinzogee@gmail.com)

 

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