Cage of Diamonds

I have to say this before anything else can come of my words, interpretively, I am not a Christian. I come from a very Christian family, but have only been to any sort of church 3 times in my life, and 2 of those were pretty much forced. Don't get me wrong, I believe in souls in some sense, so its not like religion has had no impact on my life whatsoever, but even Einstein believed in souls and some sort of afterlife... it was just more along the lines of Stargate's ideals and not Christianity's.

That said, I find it very hard to believe in any sort of God. I can understand from a medieval sense why a God is a great idea and can still be a good influence, but I must say I'm with Pinker on this. One of my most common statements, albeit blunt and unweildly at times, is how you could possibly believe in a god, while simultaneously disgracing the idea of Harry Potter (The Harry Potter series is on the banned book list, I believe but am not positive, because the Vatican demanded it). From my understanding, creating something, i.e. the Earth, out of nothing, sounds a lot like magic to me.

So I suppose that is a prime example of how Descartes has limited my mind. To beleive in it I must somehow know it is there with tangible proof, not because someone else or myself felt it, though my own feelings could certainly add some sort of doubt. So, that throws God out the window, sorry Teresa I don't buy it. As for how to fix it, I honestly have no idea, nor do I particularly want one. This line of thought has brought me so much knowledge that one, I definitely can't refute it for being bad, and two, because of all this knowledge, I can only know what this knowledge grants... It's like trying to claw your way out of a roomy diamond cage I guess. It is clearly beautiful and can hold a great deal, and of course there could always be more outside of it, but the diamonds gleam so brightly that I have no reason to bother...