9 + 1 + 1 = Heartbreak

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Where was I 10 years past towards the bottom of the line?
Watching the breaking news at home, thinking the world was fine.
My system couldn’t process all the images in my mind,
And so I thought of empty planes and buildings in the sky.

It took a while to understand the evil that occurred.
Through all the noise and destruction cries of help could not be heard.
I never understood the why of devastation on that day,
And always thought; in the end it was the villains who would pay.

But 10 years on and here we sit, looking towards the sky.
Ever wondering why, as our days pass gently by.
We cry and mourn the loss of those that we never got to see,
And wonder if the future holds the peace that needs to be.

If time could stop that day would be the time it stood silently still.
And memories and fantasies would leave us with a chill.
What could have been a working day was a day the world forced change,
And here we sit, thinking about it, as an act of mournful-strange.

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I think it is only right to mention as well as mourn this day. What was taken from us all as civilized people still has yet to be regained and has left us with a gaping hole inside that we cannot seem to shift.

Anybody who was alive and sitting at home watching the horror unfold on the news will understand the... emptiness I’m talking about here: it took a few days for me to realise that those planes were full of people – that those buildings were full of people. The entire horror unfolded for me as the shock finally subsided.

For those who were not around 10 years ago – for generations to come – that date, 9/11, will always be a stained date in the calendar. It will always be known as the time another world made us evaluate our lives and the society we live in today.

The arguments in the press today over a small minded preacher have only gone on to fuel people’s misery and hatred. I cannot see how any man of God could questionably consider such an act as vile as he did in the pursuit of religious tolerance – and yet he did.
And as he did, violence started. And violence will since until the furore has subsided.

His lack of awareness in religion and tolerance is not only astounding but reflective of a smaller, more darker, side to our civilization that needs to be addressed before it causes the world not only untold misery but unimaginable harm.

I can promise you this: if we carry on down this path, religion will be our downfall.

Signed,
An Atheist.

It's Science VS again!

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I was going to continue my post on “Terror!” as I did end it rather abruptly (it was getting on a bit late) but I’m afraid the second part of Terror and the nature of terror will have to wait as today, I came across a rather juicy article in the national newspaper “The Daily Mirror”

It would seem Professor Stephen Hawking has been at it again! Not content with angering the UFO and Extra-terrestrial life enthusiasts around the globe with his assumption (read about it HERE) that we should avoid contact with other Alien races as they might very well have hostile intentions, he has gone a step further (a leap or two in fact!) and decided to proclaim that God did not create the universe as we know it.

In his latest book “The Grand Design” Mr Hawking writes:

“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. It is not necessary to invoke God”

It would seem Mr Hawking has changed his mind since his 1988 bestseller “A Brief History of Time” in which he attributed the creation of the universe to a “Higher-being” – but I am not just reiterating a news story though – we need to question the reasons why Mr Hawking has changed his mind so dramatically over the past 20 years.

Also, the incredibly funny “Knee-jerk” reaction by Lewis Ayres (Professor of Theology at Durham University) who says, and I quote:

“Hawking is a modern atheist. He thinks that suddenly science comes along and says here are the answers and explanations, so therefore we don't need God.
But smart Christians do not think that if you can explain things by laws of science then God does not exist.”

Although Mr Hawking did neither confirm or deny the existence of God, leaving Lewis Ayres and his deliciously funny knee-jerk reaction (“There is too a God!”) looking slightly un-progressive within the religious community.
All Mr Hawking said was that the Universe created itself, not that “The universe created itself, therefore, God does not exist.

It would seem creationism VS science is still a war raging on behind polite smiles. Couldn’t science merely be the answer to “How God did it” and not “Why we exist”? I personally think “Smart Christians” should be a little more open-minded towards the scientific community.

I myself am agnostic. Religion is a fascinating subject though and one I would like to explore more in future articles.

Until that time, I will leave you with the raging debate that Mr Hawking has set out. What do you think? God created Gravity? Right?

Check out tomorrow for a more in depth look at the nature of terror and how it affects not only individual people but society.