Okay, some more, on religion

 

First, generally, it is my personal belief, that to dismiss religion out of hand is what

I can only describe as --- unwise ---.   I say that simply because almost every

civilization that has ever existed on earth has always been connected to a religion

of some type.  Beyond that, simply the accumulation of information and data

connected to religion is of course, entirely enormous and incredibly detailed.

So there is something, there, which has pre-occupied many, many people, for

many, many generations.


On a personal level a conversation on this subject which always sticks in 

my mind occurred between P.A.M. Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli probably

in the late 1920's , possibly at Solvay, during which Dirac argued against

the possibility of the existence of God, presumably some argument in

which geometry played some role, to which Pauli replied, " Dirac has

a religion, it is the religion of Paul Dirac "., ( not necessarily an exact

quote but pretty close).   Pauli was a fairly devote catholic as is pretty

well known.  Interestingly that, they both " predicated " the existence

of not yet observed properties of the physical world.  Their wiki

pages follow:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac


Now, some people have " issues " with " religion " and some people

have issues with " God ".  As far as religion is concerned, there is

often, I mean, throughout most recorded history a pretty strong

connection between religion and war.  As to God, well, there

can be innumerable arguments for why any notion of the

existence of God is absurd in some way or another.  Most

of those arguments are probably correct or at least close.


Of course, we could just go with John Lennon, and " no religion ",

but sadly for us all, " no religion " is a religion.


Ultimately, how we behave every day of our life is effectively

what we believe.  So everybody must have a religion of some kind

because, everybody has behaviors of some type.  They may or

may not be able to articulate their particular beliefs, but 

clearly most every body does have behaviors.


The problem that I see, at a some what disturbing level,

is how in many ways politics has become a kind of religion 

for many people.  Of course, this is only my personal

perceptive, but that(confusing religion and politics) is 

at a very deep level,  wrong. They are clearly two 

different things.   


Now this gets a little confusing, because, what about 

" government " ?  Yes, there is a " religious " aspect to

government, because, our government is the collective

agreement about how we behave and of course how we

behave is effectively our religion.  


So, this all seems quite jumbled, and how we unjumble

it, is a quite personal matter, and if God does exist,

then it wouldn't hurt a bit to ask Him, for a bit of

help, trying to unjumble it.  I am pretty confident

He won't turn you down, after all, what else does

He have to do with His Time?



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