Ethan, soon to be Jew (The Chosen People).

Being sick and all, the best thing for me was to stay home and read a book, although the weather outside is plain amazing.

So kick in Vivaldi and hit my old books from psychology class back from college. Along side I have a bible that I'm trying to understand why people have faith in it. Something that I lack. I have two christian co-worker, giving their insights on the greater "philosophical" aspects of this religion. On the opposing side, I have atheist co-workers preaching about the freedom to have thoughts without the layer of bias from religion.

For the last two weeks I've been discussing a lot about christian faith with them. Atheist are pretty consistent on their thoughts regarding god, also even though everyone does what they want, and it is a chaos of thoughts, there is a certain structure and logic to it.

Such as: "I do what I want and when I feel like doing."

Simple and straight forward.

On the christian side, its more complicated. One co-worker is presbyterian and the other one is a catholic. Although they share some similarities, their are still divided among many issues. I mean, Luther opposed the fundamentalisct view of the catholicism and led to the division towards protestant movement. And how many other christian faith are there? Hmmm? Too many.

Another thing that annoys me, is the different versions of the Bible. While discussing about it with my co-workers, I try to use quotes from the bible as a reference of anything I'm trying to argument, then they check their own bible, and its something different. Even worse, I think when you read something, you are bound to have your own interpretations.

My point is that, bible is a creation of men, translated to different languagues and on each translation it probably lost some adherence to it's core meaning. When I say it's a creation of man, I mean that the words might be from "God", but it was still written by man. The inclusion of men in the equation eliminates all the "purity" because it has been tainted by the inadequacies of men.

All this lead me believe the fallacy of this faith. Sure, I'm a skeptic thus why I'm more analytical. It's hard to believe any miracles from Christ described on Mark. I think to have faith, is not to believe in a book written by man, or the need to go to church every Sunday. It's is not about sin nor repent. It's about faith in God. People inclined to believe in God, doesn't need church nor bible. They just need to have faith in God.

Which brings to the question why some people have faith in God? Some people are comfortable where they are with their own thoughts, others seek some explanation to the greater "void of unknown". So psychologically speaking, religion is a mere explanation for things men doesn't have the asnwer for. Men doesn't like the unknown, they are not comfortable with it. So it's only logical to create something that fills this unknown.

Sometimes religion can be manipulated for betterment or evil. This manipulative nature in religion can be a dangerous amongest extremists sect.

Now lets assume there is a God, which is the "right" religion? Maybe I should convert myself to Judaism and be a jew like my friend Alan. Or maybe I should convert myself to Islam and be a a constant suspect like my friend Karthik, or just maybe, convert myself to Hindu and worship Shiva like Misha. They all have faith in God, yet they differ in everything else.

With all the injustice and suffering that goes in this world can you still have faith in God? No amount of "stories of miracles" can sway the belief that a God can let these injustices and sufferings run rampant among people.

A better school of thought would be, that there is no one "out there", things doesn't happen for a reason. That we are on our own, and only our own decision affects the outcome in this world.
Once we die we go back being the cosmic dust we once were.

Behave kids.