Introduction
For my interview, I chose my neighbor, Dr.Haris. Because he is approachable, he helped me a lot when I was in trouble. We had a good relationship, so I chose to interview him. He is a doctor and a humanitarian. He also hosts many medical-related programs and symposium. He has always tried to make people understand the necessity of health care and mental peace and satisfaction. There has never has been a topic about which he didn't have a great approach and has always satisfied and justified his answer to the person in front of him. I choose him to interview because he is a Christian by religion but some think that he is an Agonistic as he doesn’t go to church and always change the topic of religion but he has the holy cross hanging in his house. Agnostics are the people that believe that there is nothing know about God and cannot be known about the nature or the existence of God. He has views that God can be found anywhere, and he is with everyone.He has stated much time that it is not simple to say that there is God or not.
It is much more complicated than a yes or no question. He said that many times that he is convinced by many religion or person claims about the existence of a higher power that control the universe because these testaments come from a time when you had no communication so that you can make the same thing up that somebody else has done far away. He said there are much more things to be done in a lifetime then to fight about that whether debate whether there should be the belief in religion or not, is there a God or not. He said that in the end all the faiths and beliefs are there to make the world a better place and all have been promoting peace. He has some logical aspects in his mind that are very good to be understood if a person really can.
It clears up a person's mind about how the world is being run, and all the religious acts are just different ways of controlling people beside laws of the country. I choose him to interview so that he can enlighten me with his vision up close. I had to talk to somebody like him that understand life up close as he is a doctor and people die at his hand, and some get a second life and walk out health and happy. I don't want myself to become that person who should be considered an atheist by the people only because I can't see God or I don't like the religious views of any specific religion. I had to have this talk so that my confusion could be cleared up in a logical way, not by just mere claims that have been made by some people that I like or by someone who got me convinced as the most of the people at doing.
Understanding of Prayer
The first question that I had in mind was to ask him that whether he was an agonistic or not. I did ask him, and to this, he smiled and told he me that he is not and he has been friends and neighbors the same thing. When asked that he doesn't believe in God, he replied that he does, he counters asked me how can you not see that he does, it is difficult, but it is obvious, have you ever seen such a complex machinery or equipment come into being without an engineer working in it. Has it ever been that everything comes up on its own, not by an artist or designer? The confusion with no believer is that they don't believe The God is All loving, All caring but when there an earthquake and tsunami and millions of people die the people who don't understand just say that God works in mysterious ways, but it is actually to the benefit of humanity if that doesn't happen the world be very crowded place.
Whenever there is a catastrophe people do make the same claim but don't understand that if when everything was right, and they were the reason that everything in the life was going on right then how come when all turns bad it suddenly becomes God’s fault, you have to understand that not everybody could be granted every wish as there might be some robbers wish to rob a bank right now in world right now.
It is just a way of putting your blame on somebody else, there is a balance to be maintained, and God is maintaining it. You can't prove or understand how God work if he does not exist, for which you don't have enough data to prove it, there are Holy books, prophets, the testament that have made the prediction of future many hundred years ago and they did come true, is it not enough to believe. He asked that if God is present is as claimed then why everything on earth is trying to end the human race and why all events on earth are leading it mass destruction or catastrophe, he said if this doesn't happen how the earth will be lessened off by the burden of population boom, as our resources are in jeopardy.
According to him, this was all absurd, how can I not see higher power and the great design the world is. I was told to observe my surrounding and find the hint of things that God exists. He also did say that it is a very vast topic and a lot of research has to be done to make the religious views of some religion to be claimed as true, this has been done, it should be taught in schools so that logical claims could be taught to you minds It is not merely a true or false question. It is the most difficult and diverse question of the science and life to know about your creator.
There are arguments but according to him they not hard enough to make him believe that God is not there. The creator of all creations is questioned, and it has to be very thoroughly studied as a different topic of the science. He asked that life is made miserable on earth then how and why is a benevolent force not coming in action to help the people and make the life of people easier, he said if not let the earth run on its course then God will be there standing like a police officer making people stop at red lights . The essence of free will would be lost if such thing happens and we would be just following orders like a machine. He also that religion is called faiths due to reason as faith is what keeps him going when he is performing a surgery that has high chances of ending in the death of the patient. He didn't deny that he prays, but he did it all the time in a diplomatic way saying one doesn't have to show people that he loves God; it should be the heart of the person.
Personal reflections
When I look around, I do see that the there are many mysteries still to be solved, and I don't know if the evidence or holy testament have scientifically proven the existence of God. Logically there is always a designer behind everything, and nothing comes into play on its own. The God if did exist, is not all kind and merciful as nothing happens when people die due to catastrophes or very lethal disease, whatever the cause that you make up for it. The people believe in religion as it gives them the satisfaction that they will have a life after this life too and they will live there forever. Nobody likes the concept of dying. It keeps them flowing a make them keep believing and in a way it keeps the Earth going too as it makes them believe in peace and humanity. Everybody denies such type of claims as they think that it might make them lose their faith and change has never been easily acceptable by humans.
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