Faith

Its been a long day and my body has finally started to ache. My name is Jack for the intent of this story. Where I live plays absolutely no releavance to the content of this blog nor does it factor anywhere into the delivery of its content. I am a heart surgeon and today has been a rough day. Two operations have left me drained of my mental strength as a professional working in this field for almost eight years. But lets not waste time on the intricacies of my day. Until today, my lack of religion has always been my greatest strength.

God really doesn't exist and if he does I am sure he's probably doing something more important to better his own life on planet Earth. When people come to me asking for my help, they put faith in the fact that they have been sent to a person with years worth of experience in soemthing that is so delicate, a small error would put their lives at a risk greater than choosing the wrong color for their living room walls. What has me irked today is that when something goes right in someone's life, they seem to think that God had something to do with it. I only smile and console myself in the idiocy that is religion. For years, people have been trying to sell consumer products to the masses in the hope of gaining profit for the industries they work with. I wonder where the best salespeople in the world actually get most of their training from because I honestly believe that religion is the best market to watch when it comes to selling ideas. I have met religious fanatics on planes asking me whether Jesus or Allah has touched my life and for the most part I politely shrug them away. Why is it that humans cannot come to terms with the fact that the reason good luck has befallen them is because of their own hard work and efforts. What role does God really play in our daily lives? Does he work and put food and money on the table? Does he stay up with us in the late hours of the night while we work feverishly away at something we really want? Is he there when we finally get that promotion we've always wanted? Does he sit and watch over me while I operate on individuals everyday? The answer to all those questions is no. What religion has inculcated in us is the ability to offer blind faith when we are not really ready to accept the answers that are right in front of our faces. Our parents teach us to pray to God for everything we have. What happens to our confidence in the abilities we have worked so hard to attain? If God is so omnipotent and wishes the best for all of us then he could have ended world hunger, never given the human race any epidemics to worry about or even punished the people commiting crimes everyday. But no, God wants us to do all the dirty work and sit back and pretend to be a overseeing entity. Faith is what drives us to be better at what we are. The only misguided part of the faith we have is that there is a supernatural being above us looking down on our every action and ensuring that we finally end up in heaven. I would like to see the faces of all those people who put so many years of their lives into their blind faith toward religion when they find out that when we die we just turn into dust, good old fashioned dust. Alas, my ranthing can go on for ages and I choose to stop here for it is not faith that has made me a better surgeon, nor is it the concept of religion, it is my undying trust in the goodness of humanity and the love of my job that changes lives everyday and I hope it does the same for you wherever you are.

 

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