- A reaction to a reaction to a batchmate’s reaction to a blog =P " God is a figment of man's imagination; He is non-existent, created to fill the void of hopeless people who, due to hopelessness tend to look for something or someone to rely on. " Live life, experience its pains and joys, experience nature: you might actually cherish the thought that God exists. In any case, I think it is rather unfair to generalize that ALL those who believe in the presence of a Supreme Being do so only out of despondency. True, there exist people whom we call “fatalists” who believe that everything lies in God’s hands, and people who have to believe in Her/His presence because S/He is the only one they’ve got (and I don’t see anything wrong with that), but for one to see the general God-believing population as such and to use that to support one’s theory that God does not exist is, I feel, a mark of arrogance, if not utter ignorance. I do not wish to engage in a useless discourse with people who have made up their minds about the absence or presence (I do not enjoy as well conversations with fanatical believers) of God, nor do I feel the need to defend my God. I only wish to say that if there’s one thing we have in common, it would be faith. Faith in one’s self, in others and in God for people like me, and faith in one’s self and/or in anything else they believed in for others. Should we shoot each other down, heckle each other because of that faith? If so, the next big question is, why? Are we really that conceited and egoistic? I have not yet read the empirical and/or rational bases for the (or, more specifically, HIS) assumption that God does not exist, so I need not rattle off those that suggest that S/He does. Maybe I should just leave you with this story I read somewhere. Just a little something to mull over: A Russian astronaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing religion. The brain surgeon was a Christian but the astronaut was not. The astronaut said, “I’ve been out in space many times but I’ve never seen God or angels”. And the brain surgeon said, “And I’ve operated on many clever brains but I’ve never seen a single thought.”

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