Jan. 24, 2010 – Catechism 31-38

How new is the idea a atheist.  Like it talks about, even nature and the world around us would lead us to think that there is some type of creator or someone behind it all.  The beauty and uniqueness of the world has to make us wonder.  And maybe atheism isn’t the right thing to be asking about.  This whole notion that everything was all chance and there is nothing more than this life and everything was just thrown together from one giant blob.  How can you look at a sunset and think it is all just chance. 

We world must find that it was not around at the origin, we have no way to explain the origins of the universe scientifically, nor are we the end.  If humans stopped inhabiting the earth it would go on.  If Earth didn’t exist, it would still move on.  There is something before and after our existence, and that being is what humans have labeled God.  (I know that is really just a paraphrase of paragraph 34 but I was trying to get it in my own words so I could wrap my head around it.)

So, we have the capability of understanding God and proving His existence through reason.  We run into problems because of our Original Sin and human nature as a result of that sin.  We “persuade [ourselves] that what they would not like to be true is false or at least doubtful”.  When you think you are doubting about God’s existence, step back and ask yourself what it means to you if He does exist.  I guess a better way to put it, usually when you question God it is because you are placed with a choose in your life.  We convince ourselves that there is no God so that we can make the easier choose when to believe in a God means we must take the more difficult road.