Like many people that I know, I was raised to believe that there is a God and that he/she controls and created everything.� When I was unsure about the way something worked, I believed that angels, God, or Jesus made it work.� Lightning was Jesus playing with Heavenapos;s light switch, thunder was angels bowling, wind was God whistling, waves were made by Jesus playing in the ocean, and windmills were pushed by angels.� Those make perfect sense to a child that has no other knowledge about the subject and wonapos;t question it once it makes sense.� Today as I drove to work I watched the windmills outside Dodge Center and was reminded of my childhood theory on the workings of windmills.� Thatapos;s when I started to think about all the religion driven thoughts I used to have and how they make no sense to me anymore.� I used to wholeheartedly believe that everything was somehow influenced by the divine.� Now, not so much.� I stopped seeing the universe in terms of godly influence and in terms of mathematical and scientific laws.� Iapos;ve read both the Bible and also the Quran out of curiosity and while I found them full of wonderful stories, I have trouble believing religious works anymore.� I keep finding far too many contradictions for me to find anything in them credible.� Just the simple concept of whether or not killing is wrong is contradicted over and over.� Thereapos;s also so much scientific evidence that conflicts with many biblical ideas.� The Bible tells us the world is only a few thousand years old but fossils and rock dating tells us that the earth is billions of years old.� Weapos;re also told to believe that everything was created in a week and that nothing has changed.� Man and dinosaurs supposedly walked the earth together and one only survived because of a large boat.� Are we to believe that God just decided he didnapos;t like some of the animals he made and wiped them out for the heck of it?� And what about neanderthals, cro magnons, and other proto humans?� We keep finding their skeletons but the Bible says that they could have never existed.� Not only this but many of the things we once believe could only be done by God, weapos;re now discovering ways to do.� Cloning is a way of creating life, we can create stars and possibly black holes.�� We also have the capability to destroy our solar system.� Once upon a time, God was the only creator and destroyer and now we can do both.� With greater understanding on the workings of our universe, more and more religious ideas stop making sense.� In the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve were punished for eating from the Tree of Knowledge.� Does that mean that knowledge is religionapos;s or even Godapos;s enemy?� Am I and others who thirst for knowledge and understanding the enemies of God?� All of this begs the greater question.� Did God create man or did man create God?� I still believe in a higher being and an afterlife...but I donapos;t think I can call myself Christian anymore.� If you can still believe in the religion you belong to then I applaud you for having that much faith.� As for me, I just donapos;t know anymore.
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