Recognition

I am a person who thinks and can be rational, but at the same time I cannot deny, and in fact know to be true, that others before me, who themselves were programmed by those before them, gave to me almost if not all beliefs I hold today.

As a child I was given core beliefs, which would shape the way I made new ones. I see this process as neither good or bad – rather see bad only in my unwillingness to analyze these beliefs as one not blinded or biased by them would.

I will not defend a belief simply because I’ve possessed it (though in truth it has possessed me) for a long time, nor because those I love or respect or fear instilled them within my mind at the beginning of my life here on earth.

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I will not defend a belief based on the reason that to question the belief is a trespass to the deity OF my belief. To assume the will of a deity is to assume in the first place my belief is true, and no creative intelligence – in a Universe which clearly and demonstrably favors INQUIRY into nature, whose product is all technology and human progress – would demand that I deny using the most powerful gift given to us.