The Case for God

April 01, 2025

Back in college, under the influence of youthful atheism, I wrote an article stating my explanation on how intelligent human beings could have created the concept of god and humanized it so that they can add structure and discipline to the lives of not-so-intelligent human beings.

Sure, my explanation still sounds okay. But, I have a new way to look at it. This is from an individual p.o.v. unlike my last one which was from a societal p.o.v. There are situations that you can control and situations that you cannot control. The brain loves having control over everything. This is specially true for the obsessive-personality types. What are you gonna do about the situations you cannot control?

Even if you think it might be improbable but not impossible to gain control over those situations, how many of those situations can you fix and how much time have you got to fix it? The brain is bound to be overwhelmed. A lot of philosophies talk about three solutions for this:

Find your god.
Raise kids.
Find your mission.

First one makes you accept the non-controllables and win at controllables. The second and third makes you love something more than you love yourself - which in turn makes you obsess on 'the something'(a controllable).

So, it doesn't sound so bad to believe in god after all. Ciao.