One question that has perplexed me, as well as countless other people, is there a god? My thoughts begin with "why are we here?" and, "who created the planets". I wonder why are there so many religions? Why do miracles happen? I have attended church for 18 years, and while I do believe in the Catholic religion, I still sometimes wonder, what if there isn't a god? More importantly though, I wonder, why is there such division in the world as to the existence of god. Why do so many people believe in a god, while others refute the fact? What I will look at is not the existence of god, but rather why people are so divided. .
Most of us as children are taught about Jesus and God, the meaning of Christmas and Easter, and how God created all of us. Then we go to school and we are taught about evolution and dinosaurs and how ancient civilizations worshiped many gods and how ignorant they were. We are taught that when people do not understand something they make up a story about a superior being and say it is the work of "gods". This is due to schools not being able to incorporate religion fully in its teaching to students. So instead of taking a stance on one form of religion (which would be unconstitutional), they teach children scientific beliefs and try to explain things to children in the logical sense.
This is where I believe the beginnings of the division in many people begin. For the first time children are away from their parents and are not being told by them how to think or how the world works. Instead they are learning it from strangers. As they grow and become more mature, the more intelligent children begin to question if what they have been taught from the beginning of their life is correct. Some decide that is not, and then decide that there is no god. .
In addition to these facts, I have made an observation myself. If there was no God, and if it was all made up, why is religion so prevalent in the world today? Why do so many people attend church, or worship a god if there is none? We have all been to history class and we've all studied Darwin's Theory of Evolution, but yet still many of us attend church.