Sad... (Score 1)

Its sad that such problems exist, that we live in a country where the flags of ideals is so easily torn by the very ones who claim to defend it on both sides. Oh, yes, when confronted by the outside world, as we so tend to easily within our own, both sides included, we furiously defend our ideals, theological or not, against the forces that seek to merely speak out. And so now, I find myself so inclined to throw my own opinion into this swirling mass of ideological thunderclouds. You can argue the existence of god or not, throw around the ideas of proving "its" existence "beyond reasonable doubt." You can do all these things and yet, you will be left with one small undeniable fact that no matter what you do, it cannot be escaped nor eluded, no matter how barrier of faith and reason you put to it. None of you know. And none of you will ever know until one small event occurs. Until you die, you will not know. Until your final breath is drawn and the last beat of your heart is exerted and you pass into the unknown, you will not know. Place whatever barriers you choose to put it, but know this. In faith and scientific reason, there is nothing that any of you have that concretely says YOU ARE RIGHT. Those of faith do not, and neither do those of science. And yet, you are all so drawn, like moths to a flame to find yourselves in the firestorm of logic and faith, so blind to that one simple reality. You really don't know.