Is it Wrong to Question God?
By Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT Blasphemous; as what they call it really give a ring to all religious people - especially religious Filipino people - to be offended when someone is questioning the existence of their God. Whether it is Islam God, Judeo-Christian God, or Greek Gods does not greatly matter, the idea of a god is an early attempt of man to fulfill its primal desires and wishes. It is also an attempt to unravel the basic mystery of nature that isn’t mysterious at all, given that knowledge and the scientific method are not yet available at that time. From fetishism to animism, to polytheism, reduced to monotheism, man has furnished and perfected the nature of the divine to match all his wishes. Carl Von Doren stated in his article “Why Am I An Unbeliever (1926)” that a wish - whether it has been desired by an intellectual man or an ignorant man - is still a wish, it does not change. Another primal desire of man is to live after death. Life is too short for a man to