I'll let a secret out. A small secret. I am a scientist. And going through the school system and college and post-graduate and even in my current position numbers and equations are everywhere and they must be utilized. Can't get out of that. And growing up and learning all of these things the teachers, and instructors, and professors, and Nazi-esque bosses have always said "show proof of your answer." "Show how you came to your conclusion." And I take that to my everyday life. I don't want the answer, I want to know how you got it.
I take that to my constant predicament of God. God and religion is faith based. But I struggle with faith and truth. Show me the proof. I understand what the church says. I don't always agree with it. I go to church on a regular basis and I like the things that I hear but it still doesn't prove to me what is going on. I don't want to be an atheist or even an agnostic. I want to believe, but when I deal with people every work day that have cancer, and AIDS, and failure of organ systems, when I see 22,000 people killed in Myanmar (they need a mission to Burma now!), and when I read bible stories of how God allowed or even committed acts of violence and murder and we're supposed to find relief in that book and use that book as proof, and when church leaders use their power over the poor and the weak for their own gains... - posted by Bob One
