Well anyone who considers himself fairly knowledgeable
about sports will know that the Denver Broncos won earlier tonight and will
advance to the playoffs. He will also know that Tim Tebow, the Broncos
quarterback has taken the football world by storm. Now Tebow is (from what I
hear) an average quarterback, but he gets a lot of attention because he leads
the team well and is also a man of very strong faith. Unfortunately he also
gets a lot of negative attention for having faith as well. Recently I was
listening to the radio in the car and the speaker was talking about religion
and politics and saying that the happiest countries are also the least
religious. Now what do these two events have in common? Well nothing, other
than that they both caused me to question why it seems the world has such a
problem with religion. It seems to me that religion is seen in a negative light
nowadays, that people like Tim Tebow are being cast more as villains and the
punch lines of jokes than the decent men that they are. I would ask those that
have a problem with Tebow (or any other religious men in general) what is the
alternative? Yes, many terrible things have been done in the name of religion
(we all learned these in our 7th grade history class: the Crusades,
the Spanish Inquisition, Religious wars…). But look at the other end of the
spectrum; what about atheist societies? While terrible things have been done in
the name of religion, possibly even worse have been done in the absence of
religion. It is the absence of God that brought Hitler’s Nazi’s, Stalin,
Castro, the catastrophe in Rwanda, and the Albanian Genocide. What is my point?
Without a belief in God, human life means nothing. Is it harsh? Yes, but it is
not false at all. If I am a mere combination of atoms that was thrown together
by chance then what reason do I have to live? What right do I have? I am no
different than any other animal that dies in the wild and my death should be
treated as such. But we have a completely different reaction, and that is
because we view human life as sacred and that projection can only come from a
belief in the divine. It seems that religious men are cast as the problem, that
they are preventing our own happiness. Well what if we lived in an atheist world,
what if our laws meant nothing more than what men ought to do because… well,
someone said so a while back. Yes terrible things have been done in the name of
Christianity, but without the true followers of Christ who live out His message
of love towards others no matter what, where would we be?
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