Part 2

Why is God important?

In having the ability to feel pain humans (which hold potential for caring for others) can extend the efforts of avoiding pain to more than themselves. In the unknown is the reason for our existance. Part of our existance is pain, and as such knowing why we feel pain is part of the unknown. Yes science explains through very real facts and studies both physical and psychological in nature, the ultimate reason why we, and as an extension our pain, exist is unknown.

As all recognize the unknown (whether they apply the title of God to it or not has many explanations) all wish (unless defying the natural purpose of our instinct) to prevent and end the pain of others. Due to the causation of the unknown for our pain we turn to the belief that the unknown can also end our suffering.

What much of faith does it look to what we control and what we do not control in regards to what casuses our pain. That is the source of religion's rules for people. Some forms of pain are more quickly addressed than others. The emotional pain of adultery, for example, is more important than the physical punishment of beatings if certain interpretations of Sharia Islam are followed. Some see pain acceptance or experience as a form of responsibility for actions, so as to prevent pain again as a percieved learning from pain is assumed of mankind. Thus some faiths have pain as necessary to prevent pain in the future.

However the overall goal of having the faiths is so that the knowledge of what causes pain and how to avoid it is never forgotten but passed on to the next person so they can live their life with less pain than the person before. Some faiths were made before the progress of commerce, others were made afterwards. Some adapted to it. This is why at first banking by some was considered by the Catholic faith to be evil. However, the process of having lessons passed down was no longer tied to the title of God, and banking became safer and less painful. While these lessons may be ignored as the emotional power of greed can overcome some people, it does not mean the process ends.

However, the title of God carries with it these lessons. When outside of the title of God these lessons go under law, or just basic rules whether it be in a house, classroom, ect. The belief in God created the faiths that created the structures of government which create laws. Sometimes the religion and government were seperated, and the protection of the people became forgotten. Sometimes the government became the religion, and served to protect the government from pain and not the people.

God has served as the preventor of pain through the creation of leadership. This leadership believed the power of the unknown was granted to them to rule the people. Some forms of leadership abused such a connection indefinately (even to this day), others were overthrown to create systems where the unknown power was given to individuals over the government and the responsibility for connecting to that power was that of the people and not of the government. The control of the unknown by government has created oppression as such a system places one man in a position of more opportunity of power than another. Yet, it isn't the power of the unknown that is abused. It is the power of leadership. That will be Part 3.