Religion: Christmas And The Big Bang - by RM

After a great Christmas Eve party at the family of friends we are staying with in California during this Christmas holiday, we came back to their home that evening, sat around the living room talking about the pleasant evening we spend together.

At one point the conversation also turned to spirituality and religion in connection with the celebration of Christmas, and how powerful the commercial effect has been in overshadowing the true meaning of Christmas.

Everyone seemed to agree that throughout the ages organized religion, in one way or the other had been a curse to civilization, causing war, put up brother against brother, and in fact has been  a constant cause of strive between people.

Where the conversation became interesting was when we discussed how organized religion was perceived as opposed to spirituality. Most of those present seemed to associate spirituality with organized religion and consequently also criticized the different and opposing dogma's of religions around the world.

Heaven and hell, the immaculate conception, Christ being the son of God, all were called into question, and in one way or the other associated with organized religion.

Can you blame someone for bringing up those arguments? Of course not, given so many people have never read the Bible and most of the things they profess as the "gospel truth" they have heard, read or seen on TV.

It is unfortunate, but news about scandals surrounding organized religion far outnumber anything positive coming from people with in-depth theological and historical knowledge. 

For a Christian who does not believe in organized religion,  I have found that in the secular world we live in most people are unable to accept the fact that there are certain things that can not be proven by reason or scientific research.

The concept of "its certain because its impossible" seems to be something that classify those who profess it as having gone off the bent. But in fact this is what I would call spiritual faith.

The Bible says about faith: "It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see".

In the material world we live in "seeing is believing". The Darwin Theory, the Big Bang theory, etc. etc.,  are all based on human definitions and perceptions. Unfortunately when it comes to the last decimal point in all this research and theories, one eventually reaches a blank which can not be defined or explained.

It is that blank that only spirituality can fill in. No one else, but a higher power, many of us don't want to recognize, could have lit the fuse that caused the big bang,  making something out of nothing.

We celebrate Christmas, the birth of Christ, to recognize the existence of this higher power who gave grace, hope and the promise of eternal life to everyone..

Merry Christmas !.





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