The reasons for people rejecting God

Salaam,

it only makes sense that you present both sides of an issue. I am learning this well with the philosophy class on biomedical ethics i am taking. It seems that the reason for people rejecting God are greater than the reasons for acceptance. The top reason, of course, is due to the technological advances that have occurred in our country and around the world over the last 4 decades, in particular. It has made man feel proud of himself and his accomplishments and so he begins to get a feeling that he does not need anyone else to regulate his life. He should live as a humanist, atheist or agnostic as all these give him a sense of control over his life.

Also, the loss of nature has contributed heavily as well to the rejection of God. The people go outside everyday to see more lands cleared of trees and more industry taking over. Pollution is wide-spread and more and more animals lose their homes. There is no connection with nature except for maybe a watch of the sunrise or a trip to the beach.

There has also been a negative media influence on the people’s rejection of God. Everyday more and more stories are coming out that attack people with religious views as extremist, left-wing and backwards. On the other hand, the media has no problem with people cursing God and portraying him as they please with the slogan of “free speech.” This is not to generalize but stations like Fox news are almost becoming impermissible for Muslims to watch, for example, because they only show the extremist aspect of Islam.

The loss of morals in society and the negative attitude towards fate has added to the rejection of God as well. With more and more people stealing, lacking modesty, treating family members without respect, you naturally start to get used to the non-religious atmosphere around you.

Next to last, science, philosophy and psychology are three academic areas that have attacked religion and thus aided people in rejecting God. They are part of the “free-thinkers and research” arena. They enforce their views on others through schools, colleges and daily control of all of our marketing networks but claim only religion enforces its ideology on others. A perfect example of this is how my own professor deleted my entire post on his criticism of religion and its lack of merit because i was displeased with his intro on religion. He wrote that a religious person with morals is not as superior to someone who believes in morals without religion. I wrote that the fact you spent only one paragraph on religion in a 10 chapter book is clearly showing bias and an unopen mind from someone who teaches philosophy. I also said philosophers are all talk and live depressing lives while those who believe in God act upon what they teach and have changed communities for the better. But lets leave that.

The last and most important reason for people rejecting God is something most people don’t talk about and that is related to the secret societies and gangs that have infiltrated the power structure in our country. This ranges from fraternities to sororities to gangs. I will only dwell on their generalities as i don’t want to commit intellectual dishonesty with any of them. Basically, they seek your loyalty and life to their certain organization and work in absolute secrecy. Now secrecy can be good or bad but just from knowing about their basics, it seems that you pledge loyalty to Satan or to another man above God. It doesn’t even matter about family or your own when it goes against the “gang” or “brotherhood”. So these above are all factors that go against people who try to search or find God.

To be frank, one more point must be addressed which is the issue of what do most humans think about god? Religion definitely prevails over philosophy or atheism as a mindset of a lot of people. This is evident from the fact that any way of thinking other than religion has to be preached and built in to people while the belief in God is something that most people seem to believe naturally. But what do people mean by belief in God? It is a belief, for most humans, that is full of heedlessness and requires no service or actions in the way of god. To believe in God means that you believe in your heart and don’t really follow him in your everyday actions. One must conclude that the majority of humans are thus in partial rejection of god because they believe in him but do not follow him. This is still a rejection that is of a lesser level in comparison to those who believe in no god or believe they are their own Gods. So rejection is widespread and can be partial or complete.

A.R. Absolutist