We fear what we don't understand, and I'm afraid of everything

There exists an interesting hypocrisy within the world. It's both humorous and saddening to witness. As my brother K-Dawg hinted at in an earlier blog post, there is a type of faith that is placed within a certain object. Whether that object be religion, science, family, etc. There exists a trust that is formulated in a certain object and, through this trust, there is a sort of foundation that is created in order for there to be a space of stability within our individual realities. Although the previous sentence could be discussed and deconstructed for hours, I wish to discuss the idea of faith and how, when broken down, there really exists no difference between faith in a God and faith in a man. And how, each faith broken down, all exists for the same purpose and goal: to provide some kind of sanity and stability within the chaos that we call reality. Let's start with faith. Faith is defined many different ways, some being oriented towards religious faith others being oriented towards having trust in a person or thing. For the sake of the argument, let's just say that faith is defined as having trust in something that is unseen. A fair enough interpretation that, I believe, fits the world's view of faith. For the sake of the argument, let's utilize an analogy to make our case. One is a religious man whom believes in a God, the other is a man whom believes in science. Both have faith in an object, one for science the other for God. While a person might say, well science is real because we can see what is written down and calculated. We observe and therefore it is fact! Is that so? Well, let's break that down a bit. You observe with your eyes and utilize your mind, but is that really your observations and thoughts? Descartes had an interesting theory that he utilized in order to make a point, and I shall borrow from this interesting philosopher's analogy. He posited the hypothesis of our beings and minds being controlled by a Demon, a Demon that projects images that we call "reality" and uses them to fool us. It might seem a silly question to ponder. After all, we know we are looking at reality... But are we really? To believe so is to make, what I like to call, an assumption. Scientists assume that the reality they observe is really reality. Just as a religious man might assume that a God exists. There is a faith in something that can never be proven in both areas. Don't like the Demon analogy do you? Well, let's try another exercise. Is there even such a thing as reality, or does reality get blurred and skewed by our version of what is real? You might see the sky and say "that is good", attributing sky to something that is good. While I look at the same sky and say, "what an awful sky, how I hate you", attributing the same sky to something that is evil or foul. We both look at the same object, unless that Demon is playing tricks with us again, but we view it in a different light. Constructing two separate realities from the same construct that become all that we see... There is no escaping from this construct, the only way we can justify putting down religion in the name of science is because it helps to feed off the insecurity of our existence. That masterful insecurity that is geared towards chaos. We all fear it, even when we don't admit it. We fear the lack of control... It's innate and human, we want to know that there is stability even when there is none. So we begin to seek ways to fight off the reality of our insecurity, even though what we build are mere illusions. Narratives that help us to fight off the tides of human existence. We voluntarily chain ourselves in Plato's cave. Watching the shadows with glee, for we know that we can always look and the shadows will be there. We can always glance down and the chain will be fastened tight. It is the chaos that should become us, we must embrace the life that is human. For if we do not understand that we have no control, then there will always be war, fighting, anger, and hate. For these emotions are all born from the same fear, the fear that grips us all separately but equally.