Our universe really is huge beyond human comprehension.
What lies outside that? Possibly an infinite number of other universes.
We are ourselves currently on our little rock very insignificant in the true scale of existence, of space and time.
We are small beings, possibly not yet fully evolved.
However we did come from the atoms themselves which gave way to organic molecules, multi-cellular lifeforms and eventually us.
If that says anything it says that life is natural, that the reason for all of the stars and galaxies and everything wasn't just so they could continue to co-exist in their celestial lives, but it's all there as an ecosystem for biological life to exist like humans and all of our cousins on earth do and probably countless others do throughout the universe/s.
I can see why people rely on religions to explain our existence. Without being taught such a holy book from a young age we can stray to a path of poor principle, being blindly tempted by the evils of the world.
Chemicals in our brains react positively to certain situations and that alone is enough to bypass willpower for many people. However long before any religious texts came to be written or gods were conceived life was abundant on earth. It is much harder to live a life of principle from your own mind than blindly follow the teachings of a false god but also much greater - one who can think and act for them self. If humanity is going to abandon religion I hope great minds can keep our world a place of principle. I cannot help but think that religion at its core wouldn't allow much of the evils and stupidities in our world today - alcohol and pornography for example. Both wrongly accepted by the masses to be a norm. One is a chemical man found which happened to intoxicate him and is now mass manufactured and consumed everywhere. The other is a recording or depiction of a sexual act by person/s purely for profit and self gain and watching it does a person no good except for the temporary high they get from the orgasm (just like drugs). I honestly don't know if our evolution intended for us to use our reproductive organs in such a way. Studies have shown that if someone does not relieve them self sexually regularly then it causes biological problems. At the same time our bodies go to great lengths to make the seed of existence which continues our species, surely it should not be wasted in such a manner? People should be having physical relationships with another human being rather than witnessing it as a recording of a third party which seems to be a degradation of that persons self esteem.
Drugs are illegal by law. This is a good thing because drugs are very stupid but ideally we would exist in a society where everyone realised this, no drugs were manufactured anywhere and no one was interested in them anyway through education and awareness. The same can be said for murder, rape and most other things criminal justice systems commonly punish. They should be illegal and at this moment in time it is probably essential that they are, but again most people rely on the existence of a criminal justice system (just like many rely on religions to give them moral guidelines) to prevent crime - even to stop them from committing crimes.
It is my hope that we are not fully evolved yet. That when we do we will have much higher control over our thoughts and as a result possess much greater willpower and will no longer rely on religion and criminal justice systems and governments for our world to function.
