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Do I believe in God?


Do I believe in God?

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.” – Bertrand Russell

I do not understand how the mere opinion of others can make someone feel oppressive, or why someone would hide their beliefs in a modern world of religious freedom. Who am I? What am I? Where did the world come from? These are all queries everyone must find an answer to, or at least try to. 

Faith. Religion. Mythology. Orthodoxy. Veneration. The higher power. These are all words, concepts and thoughts I have invested a lot of time into lately. It has taken me 18 years to finally embrace a judgement; a belief I think was very much prevalent in the back of my head all this while. I wish I recognized it earlier; however, what I have recognized now is the reason behind the unrecognition of it.

I am agnostic. Many would go ahead and say that being an agnostic individual is taking the route of a coward by not having the courage and audacity to hold an opinion at all, but I think that’s where people go wrong. Being agnostic is having an opinion. A rather strong one. It just means that I do not wish to pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

According to me, there isn’t sufficient evidence to vouch for the existence of god or even the absence of it yet. Human reasoning, according to me is too clouded by notions and preset beliefs and is incapable of justifying either the view that God exists or the view that God does not exist in a rational and cohesive manner.

What I would like to emphasize on is how ideas and attitudes are subject to change, especially worldly views like such. What matters most is to have an open, adaptive and absorbing mind that enables you to decide that if religion was a solution to something, it would be better to learn about that something before making a decision about the solution.

Don’t let external pressures and gravities disable you from choosing your title, or rather choosing to not have a title at all. 

- Shimona Mohan

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