There are many religious themes creeping into our posts lets have a look at it from the past and the future.
Terror is the noxious ingredient in superstition of all kinds. The food that feeds terror is produced from ignorance and uncertainty and people from the beginning of time have used this influence to scare people. If 10.000 years ago a man was given a job to look after something valuable, the employer of that person cannot watch the employee at all times, so he uses his superior knowledge to frighten the person not to steal from him and to look after his valuables with care.
If that employee ran off, he is told, with the valuable item he would be cursed to live a life of misery and in death, eternal damnation. So this part of superstition, which is religion uses ignorance to create fear.
Now fear is only a variety of terror, because a person is fearful, he anticipates evil and pain if he does not do what he has been told. As time goes on the words of fear become the culture of fear and different nations have different fears according to their lifestyles.
So around these different lifestyles groups have bonded to the fear and evil that is most likely to affect them, if they do wrong. On the boundries of these groups there is a clash, so one man with his belief and culture will say to the other, we are right and you are wrong. If this is born into your life by constant teachings. If a person has faith than he does not give to anyother point of view, because he has faith.
Anyway you can see where this is going. As time goes by we understand more and some of the things we would have died for do not matter anymore because science has disproved it ie the world is flat, the universe revolves around the earth and other proven discoveries.
So some things that we believe today will not matter in the next 10.000 years as we will certainly become more educated. 2.000 years ago miracles where common as they served to prove a point. As communications are so much more advanced today these, hearsay new stories become nearly obsolete.
Then we must look where our education has taken us today. We cannot explain the universe so we make up theories to explain what we do not know. So we bring in quantum physics and we make a rational explanation as to what it is and how to explain it.
But because there are so many things we do not understand we invent standard deviation, ans bring up Occums/Oakams Razor to explain and justify why we have filled in the gaps we do not really know about. So that makes it a guess but an educated guess, but it cannot be an educated guess because we do not have the information, as the hard bits of information we made up.
So we then ask lots of other questions, as we have discussed many times, the universe is growing. But into what? Is there such thing as eternity if so we cannot explain it as it defies explanation. Then comes infinity again what is it?
Now the way I see infinity is, there is no ending, there has never been a beginning. The problem now is if we believe in infinity in the true sense then, everything has to exist because infinity has no boundry, no limits so that means, in the true sense of infinity that everything and anything we have or have not thought of must exist. So my head begins to try to simplify infinity, eternity and by doing that puts boundry's on them. So they are not what the are. If there is only one true God then infinity does not exist
So to simplify, what are we left with? Faith.