The creator and the creation
I find it interesting how, although contrasting and poised in opposition, Christianity and science can agree on at least one thing, that the universe was somehow created. The idea of God being a man in the sky is a concept however, I for one have had difficulty in accepting. In pop culture we are led to believe that Christians think of God as being this nicely robbed, bearded man who diligently watches over his disciples from a cloud. I think it is important to dispel this notion in that this image is solely symbolic and incongruent to the meaning of God. It imparts the idea that Christians, and all religions for that matter, seemingly pass through life in a cartoonish haze of gullibility, putting their time and energy into a romanticized speck of their imagination. When we walk, we tend to look in the direction we are going, when we are working we tend to look at what we are doing. In the same way, as long as I focused on the cartoon-like concepts of God, the further I went from...