Question on Doubt

[TheWraith]

4. The best sign of true knowledge is to understand one's own ignorance.

Despite whatever anyone else might say, there is no way to really know The Truth with a capital T. People who insist that they have the real answer reveal more about themselves than they do about the universe with that attitude. When you contemplate the sheer scope and complexity of the universe, you eventually have to come to the conclusion that you don't KNOW anything for sure. There's no real way one can be sure that there's a God. There's no real way to be sure there isn't one. Unfortunately, human religions have dumbed down philosophy and spiritual experience to ridiculous terms; asserting that conventional religion could represent the will of an all powerful creator of the universe is like saying that the sound of a cave man pounding on one rock with another is an accurate representation of the entire body of all music ever created. If there is an intelligence beyond our own, the premise that we could really truly understand it with our limited capacities is kind of laughable. It would be like trying to have a conversation between us and a starfish with an IQ of 4 trillion.

In short? It's not so much the importance of what you believe, as long as you constantly think about and examine the world around you. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, if there is a God, it's highly unlikely he gave us intelligence and the ability to reason and then expected us not to use them.