All people have a so called belief in all channels in life, whether it's religion or the shape of the Earth or a universe and so on.
The real truth is hard to gather on just about anything that we cannot physically verify and in that case, it has to be a reliance on faith, which religion basically is.
However; so is a so called scientific approach to Earth's shape and space. It's all based on faith for those who are adamant about it's true shape. Unfortunately for those people, they deem faith as true scientific fact but pass it off as a theory. Basically they cover all bases.
Hypocrisy is a better word for it.
I don't believe in a god or a set Earth shape or universe. I have a few thoughts based on logical assumption of what it could all be, but that's all it is.
Now, because our lives are basic and we do not possess magic, yet appear to accept magic as being a real thing, then most of us are easily duped into a belief system set out for us.
Those who try to look closer to the magicians' hands and trying to discard his fancy talk, can see that this magic is potentially nothing more than tricks.
So how do we find out the truth of something if we aren't allowed to go hunting for it?
If we can't stand behind the magicians and can only look but not touch and are not allowed to venture too far into the real archives of history or into the real discoveries, physically, then all we rely on is word of mouth and so called artifacts and scripts etc, of the history we are told about.
Take the bible as an instance. Which one is true or which one is truer?
Which bible tells the most logical story and which one tells the least logical?
In the grand scheme of our known reality; either bible can be correct, or none of them. They could simply be pieces in a game, like a strategic game of chess, played by those that set them out to control sections of the world's people.
Basically, as we all say. If everyone was the same then the world would be a boring place. Sectioning everything, including the people and their thoughts into different belief's, ensures that a game can be played and that all people will play that game. It's just a case of choosing a section to stand in. This includes atheists and all other non-religious names given out.
So when you pick up a bible, you have to ask yourself: was it written in one day?....a week?...a month?...a year?....a century?...and so on. How many people added to the bible?
What parts are correct in any one bible and is it possible that the bible is based on a sort of Chinese whisper game, except that what's passed on is turned into writing of that time and later copied as time goes on, omitting certain writings' and adding writings' in their places?
I don't know the answers to any of this. I am not religious. I'd say I'm agnostic, I suppose. I can't dismiss anything totally out of hand, if I'm totally honest.
I can, however, severely doubt a lot of things in how they are told to us as not being entirely true, until I can have some physical proof or at the very least a logical insight into the workings of a lot of the stuff that we question.
It's not too much to ask, yet it seems to be, as far as authority goes. It seems that we, as human beings, among human beings, are not classed as equal and do not deserve answers, or shall I say, genuine answers to our questions, nor are we entitled to physically go and find out for ourselves.
Is the Earth more scary than we think it is and we are being protected?
Is the Earth a paradise and we are placed on sections of it that we are made to believe are a comfort while the rest is inhospitable?
Are we told of a globe so that we have to accept that we are covering this ball with nowhere else to go, except a fantasy of outer space and a possible future release should a scary city sized chunk of rock smash into us that just floats around in space with our name on it, just to keep us controlled and scared?
Why is God made to be fearful?
Why are people said to be God fearing people?
Why does the devil give people excellent powers to do bad things and rewards them on Earth, yet punishes them once they die?
Why doesn't God strike down the bad people at the time whilst allowing the devil to dictate their path in life and death?
Why do we need to go to a large building to pray to a God that will not show their face?
Why do we need a building at all?
You see,there's a lot of stuff to think about. I've just scratched the surface and yet I cannot tell anyone that there is no God, because I simply do not know. All I know is, it requires questioning like many other things and the only right answers can come by seeing physical proof of what the writings portray.
That's my thought's.