Who is Your G-D?

Question:
What do you say to a scientist who doesn't believe in G-d? He says, belief is irrational and unscientific.

What do you tell, a godless intellectual?
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Answer:
Everyone has a god. There is not a sane person on earth, who doesn't believe in one. The question is only, which one.

Your god is the thing, that you believe to be infallible; you trust in its power, despite any evidence to the contrary; you believe it will always be there, cannot be defeated, is all-powerful and omnipresent.

The thing you can fall back on, no matter what, the bedrock of your life - whatever that may be - that is your god.
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If you think science has all the answers, and something is only true if it is scientifically proven, then science is your god.

Belief in science can be as irrational, as any religious conviction. Its adherents blindly accept the most outlandish theory, as long as it was presented, by an expert in the field.
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Science is only one common god. Another one is love. Believers in love, make lofty statements about its divine qualities: "Love conquers all", "Love is forever", "All you need is love", "Love is the only thing worth dying for".

Even though experience has shown, that love is not all you need, and it certainly doesn't conquer all; their faith is not shaken by scientifc evidence.

Others worship money. "Everything has a price," is their creed. And no matter how many miserable millionaires they meet, their god remains infallible; and they continue to have faith in money, as the source of all goodness and happiness.
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A very popular modern god, is self. "Believe in yourself, you are capable of anything. If you put your mind to it, there's nothing you can't do".

Nothing you can't do, sounds pretty divine. It's a pity that it's not true, we all have limitations.

There are things that are simply beyond our capability. But to the believer, no evidence will move his faith, in himself.
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It is such a relief to just let G-d, be G-d. If G-d is G-d, I can be human. I am not G-d, nothing about me is infallible: - not my feelings, my intelligence, and certainly, not my bank balance.

I don't have to be perfect, G-d does a good job of that.

Science, love, money and self, are all very important. But they are also fickle, ever-changing, and unpredictable. But the G-d of Israel, hasn't changed.

If anyone or anything should be god, it's G-d.
Seems rational to me.