Objections and attacks.

People in different nations have often distorted ideas about God and have worshiped Him incorrectly. Is this evidence against the existence of God? Someone said: the Papuans considered the stars to be large luminous flies. Is that evidence against the existence of stars? Or is it just a sign of the strange image of the Papuans? Did religion arise from misinterpretations of dreams, reverence for the dead, or superstitions that the dead lived because the food was put in their graves? G.K.Chesterton comments on this. The sheep that graze draws from the meadow and its flowers no suggestions for poems or song. Nor has the dead sheep been any stimulus to the living sheep to work out any doctrine of reverence for the dead. Such a thing was born only in the mind of man. The animal psychologist says that even a dog has dreams, but we would not suppose that a dog would develop any religious system based on goals. Religion is not something that would have developed gradually through some evolution. Some have explained the emergence of religion from superstition and have sought to ridicule it. Superstition has indeed made its way into many religions. But they have also made their way into medicine, astronomy, and other branches of life. And yet, because of the fads of yesteryear, we do not deny astronomy today. Because of the mistakes of the priests, we do not deny religion. The dilemma is not: atheism or superstition. Religion is a firm path between superstition and atheism. Actual religious knowledge is selfless. Superstition is profiteering. It wants to gain something. To gain power and strength. Atheism wants a lot of that too. It has been argued that religion is a fabrication because God cannot be seen, a Counterargument. We can’t know the idea, but we know it exists. We don’t see our joy, but we know it’s there because we experience it. We can’t define precisely what the element is, yet you know it’s in you. This is also how God stands there, invisible and yet undeniable. God is here first. He was before the others came. And He will be here last. That God is hidden is a disappointment only to our senses. Our reason is almost compelled to detect and discover God in his visible works in the world and ourselves. The structure of any technical work testifies to the basis of the designer who conceived and brought it into being. No one will argue that a rocket, just because it is material, is merely the work of matter and chance. It is only a testimony that a man is behind it, a being who has a reason. All around us in nature, we see the ordered structures of plants and animals right up to humans. Who should still today claim that all these ordered structures and processes-from the pollination of a flower to the human eye and mind-are the work of chance material elements? All around us are evidence of God. 

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