A Rant About Religious Foundations

What if it were true and life is found on other planets, even in our own solar system? Would we really be unchained from religion? Or will we most likely all look at each other, preaching to the quire and going “you see? You see there is no god!” all the while converting nobody and changing nothing. Faith is a genuine emotion, something a lot of religious critics fail to talk about. It is a real emotion twisted and used against its own patrons by the Church but faith is probably twisted a little farther than most. That is to say they seem to get more juice… zombie juice… from faith. Lust is notoriously repressed as is greed although the Church excels at both but falls short on faith. It is the one emotion “the faithful” have retained however false the direction. The clergy have faith, don’t get me wrong but from different eyes. They claim they are closer to god when the structure of the church itself  defines everything god is supposed to be against. Free thinking is frowned upon, horrible crimes go unpunished and faith directly collides with power and politics. This is inside knowledge to Church officials and that simply has to affect your faith. The faith of the Spanish housewife praying for her kids or the Greek mason worker at Sunday mass is greater than the pope’s. Their faith is clean and pure regardless of the fact that it is coupled with ignorance and a lot of the time active ignorance.

Finding non intelligent life on another planet will not have the mass scientific conversion a lot of people think it will. The faithful have already ignored countless research and educated theories and scientific laws so what is another lame science fact to them brought to you by the Mr. Wizards of this world who make fun of God by trying to use the brain he gave them? Nothing. The blind will remain blind and the visionaries will continue to shock and awe the percentage of the community who will listen and honor different views and ideas about why we are here and who we think we are. I suppose each end of the coin is still the same coin because to believe in science requires an amount of faith too. Of course it’s backed up by reason among other things but there is some faith in there too. Just like I have faith in nothing shaking the religious foundations of this world short of the return of the messiah, so we can finally see who was right.

If it’s a flying spaghetti monster I win.