It has
been the history of mankind that they proceed from the crude to the subtle in
all spheres of life: they seek the subtle amidst the crude, and in the subtle,
they seek the subtlest. When hunger is extinguished, humans looked for art. Ancient humans appreciated the harmony of music;
they also liked to dance in joy. Their urge to seek the subtle amidst the crude
was so great that, in the process, they evolved many kinds of rhythmic dance
and rhythms. So was the case with music—from simple melodies they moved to the
ocean of classics.
Through this continuous
progress from the crude to the subtle, and from the subtle to the subtlest
aspects of life, we look for eternal beauty. Those who attain such a state will
no longer taste the beauty of anything: music and dance will no longer remain
an object of experience for them –- because they will have attained a state so
intoxicated with joy that they lose their limited identity, and their ability
to experience anything.
Unfortunately, religious leaders stifled this innate desire of man
to seek the Eternal through their thoughtless, childish stories and
illustrations which unwittingly created distaste in thinking humans towards God. One of
the religious leaders was even ready to admit this publicly: “The knowledge of the secrets of
the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in
parables, so that, “‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may
not understand.” (Luke 8:9, 10) Such stories required many interpreters with
many other illustrations to understand the original illustrations which
ultimately results in warring sects numbering into thousands.
No wonder Einstein said
that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product
of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive
legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. …For me, the Jewish religion
like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish
superstitions." (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24598856/ns/us_news-faith/t/einstein-letter-calls-bible-pretty-childish/#.VOQVJOaUcqM) "I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call my self a
pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library
filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written
those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in
which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the
arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That , it seems to me, is
the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the
universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly
understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves
the constellations." (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/nave-html/faithpathh/einstein.html)
This shows poor presentation of God by the religious leaders lies
at the root of many losing their belief in God! REASON demands belief in God,
the subtlest point, the center / The Substratum. Man is unable to grasp stories
or histories that do not follow the principle of Cause and Effect. REASON
demands that everything requires a cause!
No wonder that we have too many great people who rejected
religions but accepted the belief in God—to mention a few: Albert Einstein, Alfred M. Mayer, Antony Flew, Alexander Pope, Adam Smith, Ahmad Kasravi, Benjamin Franklin, Brett Gurewitz, Carl
Friedrich Gauss,
Charles Lyell, Charles
Sanders Peirce, Colin Maclaurin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Ethan Allen, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Elihu Palmer, Émilie
du Châtelet, Ernest Rutherford, Frederick
the Great, Friedrich
Schiller, Gottfried Leibniz, Gotthold
Ephraim Lessing,
George Washington, Harish-Chandra, Harmony Korine, Henrik Wergeland, Hermann Weyl, Humphry Davy James Heckman, James Hutton, James Madison, James Watt, Jean
Baptiste Lamarck, Jean le
Rond D’Alembert, John Muir, John Toland, John Locke, José Rizal, Jules Verne, Ludwig Boltzmann, Luis
Walter Alvarez, Lysander Spooner, Mark Twain, Martin Gardner, Matthew Tindal, Max Born, Max Planck, Maximilien
Robespierre, Mikhail Lomonosov, Moses Mendelssohn, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Neil Armstrong, Nick Cave, Paul Davies, Robert Hooke, Simon Newcomb, Thomas
Alva Edison, Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Walter Kohn, Wernher von Braun, William
Lloyd Garrison, William Hogarth, Wolfgang Pauli ……….