This Is Me #2

Christianity Yea

 Something that a lot of Christians like to take solace in is Christianity's overarching nature. It explains everything we ever need to think about and this is quite nice because if we believe God is omnipotent, he should most likely want to have a hand in everything as well. This is something that cannot be said of evolutionist or atheists in general. I think even they will agree that they do not wholeheartedly devote their mind, strength, body, and soul to evolution or science, or even that they strive to do so. One of the closest historical examples I can think of humans trying to achieve this is the Nazis. Now this sounds hyperbolic but when you think about it, if you were very concerned about evolution and wanted the best evolutionary outcome for humans, you wouldn't want mentally retarded or the like to be in your gene pool. If you were concerned about furthering scientific exploration, you wouldn't mind doing some human testing or even animal testing. However, the case is that a lot of people seem to mind these things and many people hate that the Nazis did these things. Additionally, a lot of people also have compassion on those less fortunate than themselves. I'd say these are good things.

 One may argue that evolution or science or atheism does not need to pursued in a fashion similar to religion. That fanatical actions of any sort lead to these atrocities and fanatical religious actions have led to similar tragedies like what the Nazis did. Evolution or science or atheism does not need to be taken to that degree and probably shouldn't be pursued that heavily but is still a good explanation given the evidence we have. I think this is a reasonable stance to have but it also leaves a lot of empty worldview (and also devalues the argument itself to say that "well I don't really care about it that much"). If one does not devote themselves to evolution, science, or atheism, what do we devote ourselves to? Our self fulfillment, self progression, others? The funny thing is that this is ground that religion has a much bigger say in. Principles such as loving your enemy can go a long way to being that "good person" we all see ourselves as. At the end of the day, I think these are the things people really care about. Not that humans came from monkeys or fossils but how humans can help each other, how humans can persevere, and how humans can do amazing things. Religion surprisingly has great things to say about these things.