Why I'm An Atheist!

Why I’m an Atheist

Confession:

I have always annoyed believers however soft they were in the outlook :), may be its my capability to annoy people, jokes apart yes it’s been a great debate on the existence of GOD or not in the context of which side is right or wrong.

Childhood and Confusion!

In My Childhood days I always thought at least until I was around 12 year old that GOD did exist and I use to frequent all the temples on each auspicious day. Indian traditions each GOD or Goddess have a special day dedicated to them and I used to follow it regularly, this way I was good to my parents :).

Nevertheless, I still remember one night with a small telescope and peeping into a vast clear night sky, I was amazed how this all could be, what is out there, what are we made of and so many loads of questions.

When I went back to my parents and my grandparents, and some friends with that question, the answers were pretty vague or pretty straight forward, something like "obviously a superpower created it", most answers though may not be in those words but basically the same.

Seeds of Rationality

This obviously didn't satisfy the extremely questioning brain I had :) ( I was unpopular with my teachers because of this), so I started putting in equations, good and bad, truth and lie, Hindu and Muslim, poor vs. rich, beggar on the street vs. the guy looking out of his car window.

So it started to become clear to me that the world is basically not all that rosy, perfectly done and answering all my questions in my brain, may be this is the point where my mind started thinking there is a possibility that after all what I have been taught from my childhood about GOD, religion, creation, the universe (interms of super power creating it ) may be ultimately wrong, so yes it started with a vague thinking that there are so many wrong things in the world then obviously GOD has not made it even for everyone - Be it the hungry kid in Sudan, or all the cuisine food that the next rich neighborhood was throwing in his dustbin.

Somehow it all didn't add up, I got frustrated and I started reading the literature these religions have produced over years, yes I subscribed to Bible Society of India and they sent me a "New Testament “copy for free and I had a copy of Bhagavad-Gita in my home anyways due my parents religious inclination as Hindus,infact I also tried getting other religious scriptures but that is not very important here in this blog.

Holy Books and What I understood

This flummoxed me, here you go a lot books spawn around talking about nearly the same thing that is superpower but are written or have a timeline in different earth years and all they are trying to do is bring in some amount sensibility in human behavior and at the same time telling you to be afraid of the super power and the telling you that particular reference GOD in that particular book is the only GOD you should believe in.

(2012 and 100 B.C.) Now and then

This for me seemed like an intelligent piece of work to convince some set of people or humans beings in those medieval times where general brain capacity to think beyond lightening as a GOD's act was limited. I specifically say "General" because those days there were people who had their brains matured to understand little more complex things, like they could see that Moon could be revolving around earth and its force may be the key thing in tides not some extra natural power. It's just that they could not convince the general mind set those times with the limited tool set they had like -->(telescopes, or international space station we have right now in our orbit).

Stars, Galaxies, Nebula's and GOD

Now there was a question in front of me, do I believe that all that is around me is created by a superpower and simply get a good night sleep feeling comfortable that I know everything /or allow my questioning brain to say no there is a chance that I can still try to know what is around all of us. The earth, the people on it, the different religions that make it, the different languages we have, the different species that give us company on this blue planet and above all the vast universe around us, the small Galaxy we are in and the smaller solar systems we live under. The bigger nebula's, the quasars, the black holes, the empty dark matter which spreads to unimaginable distances, and the eternity question what holds all these? :). That was a lot of text in one paragraph! ;).

The different Path

So I choose the difficult path that is not believing that all this has a creator, that I need to find what are we made of, do we have neighbors, how the other planets look like. Then I understood the entire human life is not enough to understand this, so what! it is for me better than sitting in my couch and thinking Ah! I know my answers someone has crated it.

Science is my supper!

So still today I keep understanding science, and the way it explains things around me, Yes I do agree there are questions to which we don’t have complete answers, but Science has only just started so give it some time, it has to tread cautiously on a path called Faith which has a long history and has already started taking baby steps in understanding the vast, huge universe around us and to the question who are we, why are we here apart from enlightening me every day from a darker side of my brain to a side of understanding, with reasoning and with clear evidence wherever possible.

I would rather imagine time travel, and putting my efforts in building a machine to go back in time and see my childhood day rather than counting towards my end thinking oh! that day I would see the GOD.

That’s why I'm an Atheist, and I'm proud!'

By the way this is just a prologue to a book that I'm writing ;)