THE FAIR RELIGION

THE FAIR RELIGION
by Jack buno
An allowance of a 50 percent probability of there being a God, must be counter balanced by the preponderance of evidence that weighs on the Nothingness view. The 50 percent for afterlife, stands alone on mankind’s demand that subjective experience be recognized and valued; or it is possible that it does in fact stand by the interaction and influence from some Higher Power. Thus does man’s reason demand that an equal value be imparted to the equation under the name of Hope. No basis of faith could be founded without the other possibility being at least equal in probability considering the lack of evidence on either side.
I see a 50 percent probability of there being a God as the only logical conclusion that reason can draw to. For any view that deviates from that balance [attributing to one side more probability] must draw on assumption, either on the assumption that subjective evidence has a true weight of its own that outweighs the other; or, you have accepted a premise in which you believe, the collective assumptions of many, count in some way as evidence; evidence that was not acquired by the single person, you.
The ‘balanced view’, if accepted, would create a religion where each person when choosing his God, knows that he does no more than choose the name by which, and to which, his devotion is to be directed. Devotion to your God is not quelled in the least by the fact that others have chosen differently.
Our choices are clear. We can either believe in a Power or, not! If we choose to believe, then we should acknowledge that we are only electing a name which we choose to represent our ‘God’. This way, each person is truthfully acknowledging, that his choice amounts to no more than an acceptance of the limitations facing all of us.
Since anyone starting a Spiritual quest, feels a lack of ‘worthiness’ in the presumed presence of a Higher Power, it is necessary that he chose some person as a model; a model regarded by history as expressing the best qualities of a God fearing man. Thus he selects a person through whom he can enhance his own self-image through emulation, and with this image, he imbues himself with the confidence that such discipline adds to his Hope. A man’s faith is, in this way, bulwarked by both hope, and works, and with these strengthening attributes, themselves founded on nebulas concepts, he develops for himself a Spiritual passion. A passion’s expression is not dependant on whether or not God does in fact exist.