in every culture and every locale, peopel worship. although they
often do not know what they are worshiping. they is a good reason
why they are at least making that attempt. within every person
there is a feeling that there is some kind of higher being over
him. that is call conscience. God gave man conscience so that we
can tell right from wrong. animals do not have conscience, they do
not know whether wrong is done to them or not. you don't see
animals worshiping God, they don't have a moral standard. why are
human rights are so important around the world? why do people all
around the world have a standard moral code that is so similar?
this is an innate knowlege of right and wrong called conscience
that is given to man. conscience of knowing that there is a God
when we see his creation, while this isn't the only way how God
reveal Himself to us.
in acts 17, when Paul arrived in Athens, he noticed the city was
full of idols.
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said:
"Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For
as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship,
I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now
what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to
you. Acts17:22-23
the athenians had such an innate knowledge of God that along
with their pagan idols they also worshiped an unknown god just to
make sure no gods were missed. Paul then directed them to the one
true God. they didn't have to be convinced of the existence of
God.
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all
the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by
their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to
them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation
of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine
nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been
made, so that men are without excuse. Romans 1:18-20
I dun want to go further with you on your religion. I just dun
accept the creationist paradigm because its create blind faith. All
you need to do is to believe in god, blah blah blah.
to me, science revealed far lot than the bible. I know that
lightning is not acts of god to punish me. earthquakes is the
movement of tectonic plates movements.
I am not saying religion is no good, but science really dispel
so many myths. do the ancient people given the benefit of the
doubt? no, they were equally as ignorant as society and
technology then were not advanced.
That said, this world has known so many god religions in the
past, present and future, whether there is one god or many
gods, they exists in every cultures. Do you know that there are
some 300 plus god religions in India alone.