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In the Beginning

For the first eighteen years of their lives they lived a life where they were completely sheltered from the harsh truths of the outside world by their parents; usually. However once they turn eighteen and attend college, they are no longer protected by their parents as to today's culture see this transition as to one of the steps to adulthood. College students are completely ignorant to the many truths of the world. That it is not so nice and amusing as they may have assumed it to have been.

The most common decision a student may face is the entire basis of religion. For the first eighteen years of their lives they may have been attending church or some other place of worship whenever it was appropriate. They only attended such a place because of their parents and only continued to attend because either they assumed it was something they had to do or they were forced to go as I was during my childhood.

Once they enter college they have been developing their minds further and further into a state of better understanding of the world so they may be able to adapt and be able to live in today's society. Now that they are in college or maybe even before that they come to question their religion as just about everyone has done at least once somewhere along their lives. Questions pop into their minds wondering why the world is the way it is now.

-If God was an all knowing, all powerful being, why did he create us the way we are as to question his very existence and not make it so that we will believe him unconditionally?

-If there is only one God then why is it that there are so many different sects to how they may worship the Lord?

-If God was a loving being who passes on the concept of endless forgiveness why do such entities as demons, apocalypses as the end of days, and ethereal locations as hell exist?

-If we were created in the image of God, why is taboo for us to attempt what God does as we were created to be like him.

-If God loved us so much, why is it that he must test us by forcing us to live in a mortal world?

The more questions a student may ask themselves the more and more reasoning of how they come to question religion more and more and see how it isn't consistent. Even with the convenient answer as it being entirely on "faith", in today's society logic rules the world and "faith" completely defies the very existence of logic. It is commonly explained that logic can not be used for such matters as religion because it is based on the belief of something without any proof, fact or sense.

I find it cruel that they come up with convenient answers as "faith" and base all their answers to circular reasoning when nothing in their basis was even proved to be even remotely true and yet they use this false logic to respond to true logic.