by Jesse Mathewson

Created on: August 08, 2008

Every man is entitled to believe what he will, and no man should take that away from them. As an advocate of human rights in the purest sense, I tend to feel that while I may not agree with someone's habits or moral situation it is their choice and should remain such as long as that choice does not directly negate another's right to choose.
The idea of "god" or "god's" has long been pandered to man as a logical conclusion for the unknown. In the earliest known written history, there has been a god figure and this figure always has represented something that at the time was unknown. There have been sun gods, moon gods, and gods for wind. Over time, man gradually began to understand these things and multiple gods gave way to three or even one god. Modern man currently consists of a large percentage of monotheistic followers. This meaning that only one god (or a triune godhead as some may say) exists too much of modern man. Interestingly god is now used to explain where we came from, or where we are headed after death. Again showing that a god is the "filler" in the unknown equation, this can be taken in many ways.

Many arguments have been made over the centuries since the inception of "Christianity" and I will briefly brush over a few of them. The primary one is the cosmological or first cause argument, Bertrand Russell stated "My father taught me that the question Who made Me?' cannot be answered, since it immediately suggest the further question Who made God?'" This brilliant philosopher understood the reasoning and the fallacy attached with utilizing the cosmological argument. By posing the "obvious" question as many do, they inadvertently come to the logical conclusion that someone had to have "made" god as well.
Another common argument for "god's existence" is the famed Pascal's wager. This particular argument states the following, While one cannot prove that god exists one also cannot prove he does not, and that by believing you lose nothing while if you choose not to believe and it turns out he does exist you can lose everything! The basic issue I have with this particular argument is that there is a multitude of god's existent within our current world and the billions of people that believe in these alternating gods. If this argument is, correct than by default I should need to believe in all of the gods and god figures that exist today. However, given that many of the modern gods being worshipped are different from the ancient worlds gods would not this

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