God, fairy tales, and imaginary friends

God is a figment of our imagination, according to a recent New Scientist Report. The report claims that we believe in God because we are hardwired as infants to do so.

The report refers to studies that a child or baby’s brain is programmed to believe that the mind is separate from the body. This separation also opens up our beliefs in the supernatural, fairy tales, and imaginary friends.

Atheist author, Richard Dawkins, believes that children are raised to believe whatever is told to them by parents and elders. In a sense, I agree with this statement. As a child, I can remember my parents teaching me about the Bible, God and Jesus.

To get their point across, they hung a life-like 3D picture of Jesus in my bedroom. It was a depiction of him hanging from a cross. I could almost see the words “My God, why hath thou forsaken me?” coming from his mouth. Needless to say, it burned an image into my mind that has never left. Since then, I have associated religion and God with that picture.

I have also learned it's best not to judge anyone based on their views on religion, politics, and abortion. The Bible has a saying about not judging others and I am a firm believer of those great words.

Although everyone has a right to believe in whatever they want, atheism makes little sense to me. The human body is a miracle in itself. It's unacceptable for me to believe that no one created the human body. It's too intricate to believe otherwise. For example, look at the structure of the brain. It remains an unsolved mystery because we can live a lifetime without ever learning how to use it in its entirety. I try to keep an open mind when I listen to atheists and those who believe we came from monkeys or some alien planet. Some people refuse to believe in a God they can't physically see or speak to. I would challenge this belief with the existence of oxygen and the IRS. We don't need to see either to know they exist...we just know they do.