Why God is probable, but religion is not

Ok, first of all, lets start with reason. Yes, reason. I'm not talking about reason in the sense of purpose. What is reason? Even the most experienced and old philosophers don't exactly know what reason is. They don't know where it comes from or what its essence is, so to speak. What we do know, is that reason works. Lets compare reason to rational thinking, even though they are (almost) the same. When you're reasoning, you're thinking in a rational way, which means, you are looking at the outside world, and thinking in a way that you know will work. If you have something in your hand, with your hand being with the palm up, you know that if you turn around your hand palm down, the object will drop down. That's a simple example of rational thinking. Of course, rational thinking can be used for matters which are a lot more complicated than that. We'll get into that later. But the bottom line is, for reason/rational thinking, we use logic, and that logic is implemented in all of us, and we all can use it, and in my opinion should use it. We have the potential to do so, and are even forced to use it many times a day, even though many are not aware of it. Becoming able to awarely use it, will get you very far on different subjects. Logic is our only fundamental feature that we have inside of us, that tells us how the world outside of us works, but not necessarily our feelings. It's also not possible to debunk logic, because to do so, you would need logic itself, which is self-refuting. It's the most basic understanding of the world that we have and use. Remember this, this is important for later on.

Now that we've covered logic and rational thinking (in a very short way), lets get to beliefs and our comfort zone. Every single one of us has a certain comfort zone. This comfort zone is determined by the person's beliefs, confidence and a lot more. The comfort zone covers subjects, situations, actions and occurences which a single individual will find comfortable, or at least, not disturbing. For example, some people like meat, some don't. For the ones who like it, eating meat is in their comfort zone. For others, it's outside of it. And now comes the hard part to explain. The smaller your comfort zone, the bigger the amount of your beliefs (probably). If you have a very small comfort zone, you probably believe a lot of things which are not true, because if you know they were true, you would be comfortable with them much more easily, thus making them be inside your comfort zone instead of outside of it. There are exceptions to this of course on a small scale, but on the big picture, I believe that's how it looks like. Something like war being in so many people's comfort zone for example is a really really bad thing.. But something like being responsible for yourself, being present inside your comfort zone is a very important thing, just like logic for example. So usually, the more you expand your comfort zone in a rational way, the more you grow, since you are able to accept more, do more, gather more experience and act accordingly in different situations, and don't feel desperate or anxious about all those actions.

Now lets get to religion. The main purpose of religion is to tell people how to live. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's a good thing in its simplicity. The problem is, that religion in current days narrows one's comfort zone instead of expanding it. It has so many restrictions, that it alienates someone from using one's own logic and rational thinking. And this is in my opinion the place where religion fails. It tells you everything you should do, and you must just do it, without questioning anything, and if you question anything, you need to find your answer within that religion, and not anywhere else, including not inside yourself. In other words, your actions should be natural, without questioning anything, and they should just "happen" for you, for example, it should be "normal" for you to go to church every sunday if you're a Christian, or it should be "normal" for you to pray 5 times a day if you're a Muslim. You just need to do it, like a routine, and not wonder why you're actually doing it, because if you do it, you're doing it right and you'll go to heaven and that's all that matters in the end. But I don't like this kind of thought, because it removes your most precious gift about understanding the world, which is logic like i said earlier. As soon as you start doing routines, you stop using your logic and you don't think rationally anymore. All you're doing is acting like a robot and following rules, which you didn't set by yourself in the first place. The why is very important for your actions.

The why for religions is of course, to go to heaven. But what if there is no heaven? That's one of the questions you're not allowed to ask in religion, because they tell you it's there, so it must be there and don't you dare think otherwise. That's another example of the limits of religion. That question is simply something that came out of yourself using logic, but they've disallowed you to use it. And since logic/reason is the most important feature that humanity possesses, and actually makes us human, it's not probable that religion is the way for you to live your life, because it forces you to throw away your own self potential. To put it a little harsh, religion makes you an animal. Let me explain what I mean by that. If you teach a dog to fetch, or to lead a blind person, he just does it. That's all he knows, and he's not able to question why he should do it, because he's an animal. So, if you want to keep your human self, you will not blindly follow a religion and go to the church to sing that the blood of Jesus saved you, because, that's just what they told you to sing and you lost your humanity and are nothing more but an animal. That does not mean we should ban all religions all together, it just means, when we look at a religion, take the teachings it has, and use it yourself in a rational manner, instead of blindly following it. But your life should still be based on yourself, and not on anything outside of yourself, because the only thing you have to rely on, is yourself. You are the one who is perceiving, and without your perception, the "religious data" could not be processed in any way.

Now that I've explained why I think religion overall is not a realistic way to living our life, let's go to God. Ok, according to the religions, if you agree with what I just said, God basically wants you to be an animal, even though he gave you the ability to be human. Does that seem right to you? Didn't think so. In its essence, i think God exists. What God is usually defined by, is the "creator" of all. In other words, He was present before earth existed, we existed, and even time and space existed. Now we're gonna mix science with religion. Before the Big Bang, time nor space existed, yet, out of "nothing", kaboom, existance was present. Now, one of the basic understandings of science is that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. One of the most recent discoveries say that matter is nothing more than vacuum fluctuations. So basically, all that exists is vacuum. Vacuum is the energy that's needed for the existence of everything that is, and is the only energy that is. This energy is what formed our universe, you and even your use of logic. Now comes a bit of a problem, because we don't know anything about the vacuum, except that it fluctuates into matter and energy. This vacuum is something that we can not perceive at all. 

One might say that vacuum then, is God, but i would like to go a bit further than that. Because vacuum is something that might be present in our current universe. We don't know if this is the only one, and can't know that either (yet). So vacuum is the material for everything created in our universe, which we know exists since we live in it, so let's not comment on other universes since we don't know if they're real or not. Since vacuum is the material so to speak, there must be a source of where that material comes from. That source, one might call God. Now, some people might say, yeah, but that source must have come from somewhere too, and that one above it too etc. and can keep going into infinity. The answer to that is simple. It doesn't matter. You read that right. You know why? The fact that you can keep going into infinity means, that at some point, there is something that has no source, no beginning, no end, no limits whatsoever. That's what logic tells us, and that's the bottom line. You can't go further than that, and that's the reason there must be "something" (not the right word to use since something implies a limit) which has the same description as God, which is the ultimate source and the ultimate everything, and has no limits.

To go back to the religious version of God, i want you to ask some questions to yourself. You can write answers in comments if you like.. But at least answer them for yourself based on your own logical thoughts.

Why would God, [who's infinite in all aspects (including time space etc.), who can create humans like Adam and Eve, all knowing, perfect] ;

1) Create you while he knows you would be going to hell because of your own choices

2) Send a prophet at one time instead of giving each individual a direct source of truth at any given moment ( I actually believe he did do that...)

3) Want worship

4) Punish you for trying to use what he gave you

5) Feel human emotions like anger, disappointment etc.

6) By being all knowing and, still have the same approach with his spread of religions, knowing the majority will go to hell in the end

There are more but i think this is long enough already.. That's it for now. Until next time.