Mankind fears what he doesn't understand because he cannot control the unexplainable. Mankind fears what he cannot see, but he prays to the unseen daily. As you let go of the security of your insecurity, all things are possible.
Abandoning the spiritual life-- For some reason we are led to believe there is a certain sanity and logic to our existence. But who wants to say it is all illogical and without any certain course leading anywhere? Who really wants to believe their life is without meaning and purpose? A thousand religions and a hundred sciences have all tried to order it and make sense of it. But looking objectively we can not say any have truly succeded in their quest to find that universal answer that explains our being. Objectivity is difficult to attain but if we can look at the history of religion and sciences of existence from a purely historical basis. If we measure what fruits man's struggle to explain man have produced we can easily see the abscence of a succesful model. Every religion has created struggles within man and produced struggles between men. The sciences of psychology and psychiatry have not reduced the mental illness of mankind. It has simply given a language to try and describe it. So atheism and agnosticism becomes a natural outcome of a system that realistically intensifies the struggle instead of providing peaceful workable answers. Of course most apologist would say the problem is not the religion or sciences, the problem is what man does with those systems. They take the divine and orderly and interject their own base human selfishness into it. Thus they pollute what could work. Does man prefer the struggle to find above the working out of the problem? Which means if we provide man with the perfect answer to every problem he will reject it so he can continue struggling to find an answer. He finds his identity not in the answers but in the struggle. Certainly the history of man would affirm this. Wise men and prophets are silenced and killed if they are too sure in their answers, lest all the world should follow after them. So man is addicted to a chaotic life where the true meaning of his existence must remain a mystery. So no religion or answer would be sufficient. But let us speak of abandoning every spiritual principle and banning every religion. The world will cry out, "insanity, insanity." After all even atheism is a religion of it's own born of denial of divinity. Agnosticism is the religion of the eternal question mark. Viewing man's need to have no absolute answer's perhaps these are the truest religions of man. The reality may be inconvienient but any who would find answer's need to reckon that absolute universal answers are taboo. We can state that man's joy is in the struggle to find, his peace is in the mystery, and he will defer to the last minute accepting any concrete answers. This could well be the explanation why every "Gospel of Peace," has given birth to every war.
