Faith vs. Logic

When miraculous things unravel in front of our eyes, we always believe that it’s not explainable using human logic, beyond a point. And we always quip, “There is a God”. Almost 99% of people I meet tend to think so, and they are believers, ranging from doubtful to firm, but still they are.

I too was brought up to believe in God . To pray to God for you needs, to give strength and to give a healthy life. But when I grew up, may be because of the influence of learning science or may be due to the experiences, I became a bit doubtful about my faith. It switched between being religious, being agnostic, being an atheist and then back to religious and all that.

There’s a thought which crosses my mind whenever I pray. At the end of the day, I am so selfish. It’s all about ‘me’. I pray for ‘my’ well being, for ‘my’ people to be healthy and happy, for ‘my’ studies, ‘my’ job and the ‘my’ list is endless. It’s all about me. Sometimes, I would even think, “do these prayers make us more selfish than we actually are?” I really have no idea. But, even now, when a tough situation comes, I find solace by praying to the power, whom I have never met or touched or felt, but feels that somewhere he is there. Now I pray to give me strength to put me through. 

I always think how it is to be an atheist. I have met some very staunch atheists against whom we, a bunch of believers, couldn’t even stand after sometime with our arguments. Even a simple question like, “How do you believe in something when you have not seen, touched or felt it?”, could easily counter our arguments in support of the God. The answer was simply “We don’t know”. In my capacity as a normal human being, honestly I have no answer. But I can only say what is said above. I always turn to him to give me strength. Then they would argue that it’s because of low self confidence. May be. I don’t know about that too. But there are very confident people, who are firm believers. So, the debate continues. But still, it’s so unconvincing on the believers’ side.

The latest being Lisa Ray’s miraculous escape from Multiple Myeloma and some comments followed made me write this. The essence of these comments is “There is a God, who saved her”. But then, are we disregarding the achievements in the field of science that has saved her? Are we disregarding the human ingenuity which worked behind these innovations which can cure such diseases now? Definitely, science faltered/falters/will falter many times. It has even caused some critical damages to humanity. It’s a constant argument that goes on and on in my head.

Huh! I’ll go mad.