[phoenix_fire]

Quote by: another day "What I see happening is that humans are becoming more arrogant. They don't want a god over their destiny: they want to be gods over their own destinies. Faith is out of fashion because it doesn't fuel our narcissism enough. Bowing down would cramp one's style. People take what they want out of life and everyone else can just go to Hell for all I care. Marriages are made and broken because people consistently seek out the "perfect" mate, and yet take not one iota of time to try to make themselves a better mate in turn. People try to make as much money as humanly possible so that they can say that they are masters of their own fates. They seek out miracle pills that will prolong their lives as they shake their fists at death. Futile. That's all there is to these people's lives: futility. And the world is worse off for them." Perhaps.. But can you really blame lack of religion for this? Was the world a better place when religion reigned supreme? I think it's time we stop blaming all sorts of things and realize that humans are destined for conflict forvever...it's in our nature and is something that we cannot surpass. Except,. maybe evolution will solve it. And I doubt we will live long enough for that to happen.

Evolution is the new religion of the godless. Think about it. It requires the faith that there is some mostly benevolent force behind our development and that we are being made better with time. Evolution will NOT solve all our problems, and while you're waiting around for someone to start growing another appendage, people are starving and dying in wars and murdering each other for no good reason. Others live in misery because they have convinced themselves that they should have something that they will never be able to obtain. Evolution isn't going to fix these problems. I do know, however, that God does. The Bible says to be content wherever you are, to love others more than yourself, to take care of the poor and orphaned and to realize that we are not supreme and there is something more important than our own banal selfishness.