by Raffael A. Ferri PhD

Created on: January 08, 2010

This question has been the proximate cause to many wars. Proving one concept to be better and greater than another requires rhetoric skills. He or she, with better skills can surely frustrate those with less skills. In essence, we are left deciding for ourselves which sounds most convincing; however, we are still left divided. When all can accept one concept, then the answer to the question will be solved.

Quoting chapters and verses from the New Testament, Torah or Koran only arms one with points in a debate. How unfortunate that most people don't even realize that these chapters and verses have been shredded to accommodate the powers to be. Preachers of all religions have interpreted verses to manipulate followers and increase donations. This is perhaps the only truth when comparing religions. Yes, there are some righteous people in every group, but that doesn't make one group better than the other. The righteous will always stand tall, for they have no motive.

It is only because we cannot explain the unknown that we ascertain a greater power exist. We create G-d in our image and somehow seem to know how He thinks, what He will do and how He will do. One goes to Theology school of some kind and suddenly understands G-d better than the next. How self-absorbed can we be? Why is it that we have to have a G-d in the first place? Are we not mature enough to live a life without G-d? That is a rhetorical question, by the way: don't get all hot and bothered. Of course there is a G-d, but that is all we can say. To try and figure Him or Her out is wrong, period. We are capable of solving our own problems regardless of the fact that history may disagree with that; however, it is because of our constant attempt to prove that one religion is greater than the other, is precisely why we cannot live in peace. This is the year 2010 and we still have poverty, hunger, wars and genocide: we still debate which political structure is better: we pretend to accept all that is different and yet we shun all that is different. Until we cease wars and focus on humanity as a whole, only then will we realize which religion is the greatest.

Yes! G-d exists! That is all we know and that is all that matters. Let's stop trying to figure Him or Her out and focus on the real issues in this world. Issues we can see, taste, hear and smell and not issues which may or may not exist. Join together as a people rather than split humanity with religion.

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