I recently saw a protest launched against a school principle who dared to pray at a school function. The Freedom From Religion group objected on the basis of a so-called "constitutional" ban on public figures expressing "religious views in any public forum.
What is the most disingenuous about this is the very idea that any mortal can be "free" from religion.
The term "religion" is loosely applied by such protesters to any reference to God or any other "supernatural" being or entity. The Judeo-Christian view of man and the world starts with the simple statement: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
The Freedom From Religion idea is based upon an identical statement: "once upon a time millions of years ago, the heavens and the earth appeared from purely "natural forces." The only difference between these statements is the substitution of "natural forces" for the word "god."
Neither of these statements can be proved. They are both solidly built on a foundation of faith. The one has faith in a creator, the other has faith in a unidentified process which brought about every thing that we see including living things, stars, planets, etc.
Since this undeniably true, why, then, do these people regard their faith to be superior to any other kind of faith?
The faith in a yet undiscovered process by which everything came to be is, in fact, based on a cultic belief in "science." Scientism (the religion of science) is based upon two asumptions which briefly stated go something like: "Since , as we all know, there is no God, something else must have caused the world, universe, life, etc." The second statement is somewhat like the first: "Although "science" has not discovered the process by which all of this came to be, I assume that eventually "scientists will discover it."
Go back now to the protest against this "theist" and try to explain why they think they have a moral superiority upon which to demand him to be silenced.
We cannot know anything with certainty about man, the world, the universe. We are compelled to take a leap of faith in order to go on with our lives.
The choices of what we choose to believe are not superior to one another.
Life, however, seems to be very sophisticated technology about which we know very little. This leads me to lean heavily upon a great engineer in the sky who made it all.
