I had a really long discussion about religion (I have no idea why but this stemmed from the time I decided to copy and paste an old entry onto facebook notes) with my sister and nessa; as well as gained some interesting hindsight on the banter between Eric, Jeanette and Eugene.

I was asked an interesting question by nessa today. She asked what made me believe in God. It kinda stumped me for a while, because well, you normally do not expect a question as this? And while the idea of religion is wholly and generally still a little on the irrelevant side for me, I believe and still have utmost faith in the existence of God. Agnostics and aethists would argue against this, but I always wondered how science could have created us.. I mean yea, scientists and those of the rational mind argue that it has been proven through the evolution theory and hundreds of thosands of evidence through fossils, dating of tree rings, whatever else high-tech equipments have provided that science can and will account for the creation of the world. Yes, such people choose to believe in this. Yet, I choose to believe that God created us, created this world for us. There are some questions, some doubts that can never be answered, not even with science. How was the human mind (and thus allocation of the word 'sapien' to us) created? What was the human conscience based on? There has to be something greater out there that had it all planned out. Why not let cockroaches which have lasted through the times of the dinosaurs evolved this way then? Why was it the monkey? The ape-man??

And hence, it leads me to (half)-conclude that scientists and the religious all have one thing in common-faith. The former choose to believe in their facts. We choose to believe that someone else created these 'facts'. Aren't we all then just worshipping another God, just in a different form? You cannot say that no, there isn't any facts with regards to religion. There are facts. They exist in the form of the bible, of the bones of St Peter buried deep under St. Peter's Square (am I right in the location name?) and in the form of all the uncorrupted bodies of saints; miracles that we have observed...I don't know, so it further substantiates why I would believe in God...


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Oh, totally forgot to mention that I gatecrashed nessa's church at the expo today..I felt a little more welcomed-ish than I would be in Risen Christ..I don't know how to put it, being able to experience the same faith, based on a different form of practice (something people like Eric cannot understand... no personal attacking here, but I quote him because it's easier since I know him and have been talking to him about it) makes me EVEN more into my own faith? Their communal bonding is way way more advanced than ours and it would be great to emulate them in this manner though.. yea..anyhoos, crashing her cellgroup picnic was awesomest too so love you neh!



ANd  I am not locking this entry, seems that it benefits more people this way? HAHAHA!