Belief in the Existence of God
Most people believe in the existence of God who is a supernatural being, almighty and sacred. Due to this, they get answers to various things that happen in their lives daily. Believing in God makes people accept their way of living. However, this belief in a supernatural being is going through various criticisms, and some people are against it. It has become a question that needs to be answered in details since there are philosophers trying to challenge this. Based on their arguments we need to understand why in their views there is no God and why do people believe God exists.
The Opium of the People
From my point of perception, God is the opium of the people. This is a perception created by a particular group of people to console their troubles. Through the belief in God people also created some religious groups that give them a sense of belonging, that is, makes them feel accepted in their society and help them meet their social needs. For example in Christianity, there are churches in the community where people had their membership and counted as one of them.
Religion as Human Made
I have, not for once found myself changing my views about religions as a result of different arguments that I have engaged in. From a rational perspective, one can consider certain religions as the culture of a specific community. For not less than the last 10, 000 years, most significant changes in human existence have occurred as a result of cultural development being experienced in the realm of human ideas (Knepp 389). This argument offered a rational argument in my perception for the conclusion that religion is human made.
Aquinas' Argument for the Existence of God
The argument of motion raised by Aquinas is more persuasive when proving the existence of God; he argued that in the universe, there are bodies that are always moving (Aquinas 134). By his argument, he meant that things are always changing and anything in motion must have been kept in that state by another thing that was moving. From his argument, he holds that, "whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another, ... this cannot go on to infinity, because then there cannot be first mover" (Aquinas 67-98). By his argument, he wanted to indicate that, to do away with the infinite chain of motion, there must be the initiator of the motion, God.
Work cited
Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica: Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province. MobileReference, 2010.
Knepp, D. "Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 6Th Ed., Ed. John Perry, Michael Bratman, and John Martin Fischer." Teaching Philosophy, no. 3, 2014, p. 445.
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