It's OK to be an atheist

[The2ndWheel]

114. It's all our attempt at objectivity in a universe that doesn't give a damn

God is a concept we agree on to go about our lives too, until we don't. People are clearly fallible, can do stupid and bad things. We crave something, anything, to give life meaning. The rule of law is as subjective as anything else humans come up with. People put their faith in that though.

We created the concept of God, a god, many gods, whatever, to rationalize and justify the things that we do. Or were doing when we came up with it. The Earth is 6,000 years old. Oddly enough, that's around the time when civilization really got going. Give or take a thousand years here or there. Why do people do the things that we do? What keeps people going more, that we're just clever and violent animals staring down the dark abyss of oblivion, whose actions and thoughts don't really matter in any way whatsoever, or that there's a God out there looking out for us, that looks weirdly like us?