On The Fence

There is an eternal debate that lingers within my head. I was raised Catholic, but instilled with an education. An advanced education naturally conflicts with matters of faith, as taking something on faith is the opposite of the Socratic method. We are taught to come to conclusions based on fact, to utilize devices like Occam's Razor, the theories of probability, and advanced reasoning to achieve our goal.

To take matter on faith is to throw reason away and accept that although we cannot see, nor touch, nor hear this presence - it exists in spite of these things. A hundred years ago, the idea of a molecule or quark would have been laughable, but it has become irrefutable thanks to advanced technology. Do you think we'll ever make a telescope so large or a microscope so powerful we could see God?

I don't know. That's why this debate rages eternally within my mind:
Could you decide? I bet not. One transforms from flesh to the holy spirit, but the other transforms from a giant robot into a truck. I mean, fuck's sake, I can see how the holy spirit might me lurking around inside J-Man, but do you even see a spot where a giant robot could be hiding a truck? It's not like he crammed it all into those biceps of his. Optimus Prime is magic.

Sure, Jesus is magic too, but Optimus Prime explains the source of his power. He operates on Energon cubes, an abundent space resource mystically located in remote region of earth. Ha! The body and blood got nothing on that!

Laugh at that, but seriously; which is more likely? That some omnipotent being decided two thousand years ago to send a guy to teach lessons in a remote part of the world [further damning those who can't gain his wisdom due to proximity] OR that giant robots from outerspace locked in a galactic civil war crash land on earth, befriend Spike and his dad, then proceed to battle a waging faction in order to recharge their ships with the last of Earth's energon cubes [a resources gone undetected in the several millennia mankind has thrived] ?

The smart money is on the flying robot cars. Then again, if I were Buddhist or Hoodoo, I suppose either option would seem ludicrous. The third alternative, I suppose, involves putting faith in yourself and your own abilities while also making the most of the time you have alive. But then, that would be denying both choices - and I'm sure you're no hoodoo witch doctor.

[Thus ends the Jesus/God trip I've been on for three weeks.]

Reminders for class: If I told you to pick one, you would choose wisely. But all I did was show you a picture.