The God Treatise
Apr. 13th, 2010 11:00 amIn the midst of this time I stand in now, a movement long existing obtains greater numbers than ever before. It is the movement of atheism, a true plague on the spiritual world and something that we can never be rid of as a species. There will be those who believe that, even in all the complexity and amazement that goes on in our world, and even in the infinitesimally small role that we each individually play, they are somehow capable of a feat of presumption and divination they call "logic" and what was once called, "logical positivism" before its fall - the attempt to state that burdens of proof lie upon the claimant, although the wording is all wrong and not in their favor at all...every single claimant of any individual scientific theory has eventually proven to not have claimed the entirety of a given theory...and it is these theories themselves that are modified in changed over time. If rather we were to say it was that the burdens of proof lie upon the claimants, then again we would find ourselves in the same peculiar situation...as the claims of science have changed a great deal in even just our last century, or the past decade...having been added too and even taken away from more times than any one man could likely count or know simultaneously. But these are not the true issues working undermine the meaningfulness of the atheist's so-called "logical positivism." It is the mere fact that even with all of the information we as individuals can collect and verify through empirical means in a lifetime, and utilize to design and develop infinitely great wonders of technology and engineering that most men an age ago could not have dreamed of, we still can not disprove the postulation that God exists, in one divine, most penetratingly spiritual form or another.
And while there may be the claim that if a theory can not be disproven, or proven for that matter, it is not a valid theory...this is simply a claim, a theory in and of itself that won't find itself proven or disproven until the end of technological development and the limit of the absolute rules of the universe are discovered and documented completely. We need only look behind to see that there were "scientific", valuable theories of today concocted then, when the tools available at the time had not the capacity to validate or verify them.
I must, therefore, kindly disagree with the atheists. I may not know which church is right if any at all...nor do I know whether or not any religion is right or if they all are...but I do know that there will never be a way for my self or another man to determine or validate the existence of the divine absolute, because no one in the race of man are Gods themselves, because we are all mortal and infinitely small in the vastness of existence, because we are weak and simple minded when our minds are compared to what the limitations of reality are, and if after coming to know this we still believe we have the capacity to determine such an existence or nonexistence especially, then we are also without any humility whatsoever, we ourselves having a God complex and an incapacity to realize or comprehend even our own significant limitations.
And while there may be the claim that if a theory can not be disproven, or proven for that matter, it is not a valid theory...this is simply a claim, a theory in and of itself that won't find itself proven or disproven until the end of technological development and the limit of the absolute rules of the universe are discovered and documented completely. We need only look behind to see that there were "scientific", valuable theories of today concocted then, when the tools available at the time had not the capacity to validate or verify them.
I must, therefore, kindly disagree with the atheists. I may not know which church is right if any at all...nor do I know whether or not any religion is right or if they all are...but I do know that there will never be a way for my self or another man to determine or validate the existence of the divine absolute, because no one in the race of man are Gods themselves, because we are all mortal and infinitely small in the vastness of existence, because we are weak and simple minded when our minds are compared to what the limitations of reality are, and if after coming to know this we still believe we have the capacity to determine such an existence or nonexistence especially, then we are also without any humility whatsoever, we ourselves having a God complex and an incapacity to realize or comprehend even our own significant limitations.