Our lives should be getting easier and more simplistic, but sometimes attitudes and technology are making them harder and harder to think outside ourselves.
These days we’re so obsessed with what we look like, how much we weigh and whether we’re up to date with the latest fashion, it’s difficult to put things into perspective. Our modern society has become the disposable society, where things are so cheap we can use them and then throw them away; we have take-aways rather than cook ourselves a meal; and we live for what we can do now rather than planning for the future. It doesn’t matter what will happen in 10 or 20 years’ time because what happens today is far more important.
But this outlook sometimes makes us blinkered to what else is happening around us. It’s easy to forget that there are others in the world, it’s easy to forget that people are different from us and it’s easy to push away more difficult things in favour of the comfort of an easy lifestyle.
And so it is with religion. It was never given to us to make our lives simple for today. It was given for the long term. And it is difficult. No religion says that following God is a stroll in the park, but our eyes are to be kept on the long-term rather than the here and now.
So before you think about discarding God with all of your other rubbish today, think what or who God really is. Science “tells” us about the Big Bang and Evolution, but some scientists also say that it’s unlikely that the universe came about by chance because too many variable factors would be involved in creating it. Who is right?
