The Failure of Religion
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Why is your god better than mine?From the Austrian National Library, courtesy of UnsplashI am not a religious man.In disclosure I am Jewish by bloodline, love my Jewish brothers and sisters, and do not pray as I cannot bow to an entity in which I do not believe.I am a cultural Jew, through and through, and I’ve been through the rigors of anti-Semitism which I fight vigorously.My perspective is one of non-bias. If you consider yourself a religious and choose to worship a god or gods, that is entirely your personal business and certainly none of mine.I will not discuss specific biblical passages in this essay to try to prove a point, which would be disingenuous, and so that leaves me only with my own unbridled opinion on the matter.I share the late Dr. Hawking’s view … but with a caveat: I do not consider myself an athiest.I am agnostic by nature, and believe we live in a universe traversed only by the full capabilities of our senses. What some of us cannot explain we ascribe to a deity. When the limit to our capabilities are reached, our world is defined. And yet, so much of what we do not know is due in part…