With there being so many religions in the world ( the exact number unknown due to new religions being created weekly and 21 major religions according to Howmanyarethere.net. Most of us might lose some faith with all of this spritual confusion around us everyday. Who is to say losing faith is wrong though? what if every religion humanity as thought to create is wrong, and we all sit in hell (or some equivalent) talking about how we were all wrong. Religion does serve the purpose of giving life meaning because in most cases without the introduction of religion, people will ask "why are we here?" and be greeted by a resounding silence. Religion is the answer to that silence, but is that not an arrogance born of ignorance? To believe that we could assess what our creator is without any information other than written works by other human beings, the same imperfect creatures you and I are? You or others around you take these works to heart, but within these works it tells you not to worship a false God.... how do we know that the God we worship isn't the false one? Well, we don't , there is no imperical evidence that there is a God but there is also no evidence that there is not. So, I believe there must be something, but with the infinite universe which is expanding everyday the law of averages say, we can't possibly be correct in our assumptions about our creator. We can't even prove if there is other life in the galaxy yet. If there is, why is this not mentioned in the majority of our major religions? If there isn't, how terrifying is it to know we are all alone in an infinite galaxy? Would that not make us the masters of this dimension of existence?
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity."
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
$1.6052 billion dollars spent on the 2012 presidential campaign just for an Incumbent to return, this is a great waste of money and absolutely screams to the USA that there needs to be some sort of campaign reform, super pacs and celebrities are now given more access to the candidates we the people elect than ever before just because of the enormous sums of money these groups can generate for a presidential candidate. This wasn't the peoples election, it was the 10%s election, and while I am pleased with the result of the campaign, money shouldn't determine the winner, and although I don't believe it did, some data from The New York Times gives some credence to the idea that the more money you have, the more likely you will win. Barack Obama raised $934 million and spent $852.9 million, in contrast Romney raised $881.8 million and *only* spent $752.3 million. Most peoples first question would be... where did the rest of that money go? The answer to that is simple, in Romne...
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