Knowing

IN TERMS OF RELIGION, the world's most honest people are agnostics. Agnostics honestly admit that they do not know. We should all be agnostic, in terms of honesty, because nobody knows, although most of us pretend otherwise. I believe in god, because I want to and I choose to, not because I have any factual reason to, because there exists no factual reason to either believe or not believe in God. Atheists are no better than those who believe fervently in God, because atheists assert a certain certitude, where none exists. how can anyone possibly be certain that there is no god, or that there is? No one can, but everyone is. Everyone is a self deceiving liar, except for agnostics. We humans have a remarkable capacity for refusing to accept our ignorance, and for replacing it with fabricated false facts, mythology, superstition, religion.And the invented facts we fabricate are mot imaginative, as befits an imaginative, creative species. In one version, a quirky, playful collection of gods and goddesses frolics atop Mt. Olympus, often descending to Earth to make mischief and inspire mythology. Nobody knows fer certain the location of mt. Pylmpus, which makes no difference, because if anyone ever pinpointed it, no one would dare ascend it for some empirical, observational godly confirmation. One must never, under any circumstance, risk disproving the existence of one's gods, nor dare one even contemplate seizing an opportunity to do so. In another version, God chooses his favorite people, and, still attracted to high places, descends upon Mt. Sinai impersonating a bush on fire, and indoctrinates a future killer, Moses. Later, the sacred law goes into an ornate box, and must be obeyed, though never seen. then there's the scenario in which God becomes mere man, updates the instruction manual, then tortures himself to death to compensate for the bad behavior of beings to whom he gives the motivation and means, thus repaying himself for his own questionable judgment and trouble. Creative accounting, we would call it now. it is nearly worth the price of admission to stick long enough to see what we the progenitors of human culture come up with next.