Don’t believe in anything without evidence
That is always said by atheists all over
the world
To me, to my friends, and to many other
people
But I find it entirely absurd, absurd, and
absurd!
When somebody has prepared food for the
whole family
And then serves the food on our dining
table at home
We eat up the food thankfully and happily
That the food contains no poison, we need
no evidence
We simply believe that the food is clean
and healthy
We simply believe none in our family will
try to poison us
We simply believe we in the family love one
another earnestly
We simply believe none in the family will
betray and harm us
Believing is our normal mental act
everyday
Without positive belief in our life day
after day
Life will surely be felt too burdensome and too
weary to live
With belief in our heart and mind, life
turns enjoyable
As husbands we simply believe that our
wives are devoted
They have given birth to our true sons
and daughters
No DNA tests we need till we’re buried in
our own graves
To prove they are truly our own blood and
flesh indeed
At this moment we simply believe that our
great Sun
Tomorrow morning will rise in the east and
shine again dashingly
No need for NASA to fly us at the speed
of light to the Sun
To catch and lead it to the east to make
it surface again gloriously
That in the past the Sun emerged in the
east regularly
Isn’t the evidence for now that tomorrow it’ll
rise again normally
Something unknown could happen to the Sun
unexpectedly
That can make it disappear altogether for
all eternity
To believe is to live with hope
Great hope stimulates you to live greatly
Without hope, life is felt too
threatening to live
So, believe cheerfully and greatly!
Scientists themselves live normally with
belief and hope
They even believe and hope that their scientific
hypotheses
Will be able to be verified step by step via
scientific methods
Without this prior belief and hope, there’ll
be no progress in science
I’ve even seen that in the libraries of
many great scientists
Fiction books and novels stand in line in
their book shelves
Fictions and metaphors are as important
for them as scientific facts
Fictions train and stimulate the
imagination to grow limitless
Einstein inspiringly says, “Logic will
get you from A to B.
But imagination will take you everywhere!”
Imagination will take you from facts, realities
and orb
To beliefs, hopes, and the realities beyond
now and here
The physicist even states, “The true sign
of intelligence
Is not knowledge, but imagination!”
If you wish to have more and more
intelligence
You therefore should enter the world of imagination
So, believe Einstein, and reject the
atheist notion too
That only facts and only evidence do
matter in our real life!
Imagination, beliefs, hopes, fictions,
and novels, matter too!
Without fictions, hopes, beliefs and
imagination, so barren is our life!
Let’s go to the movies and buy the
tickets for each of us!
Watch cheerfully and attentively fiction
movies!
Watch joyfully imaginative and fantastic
movie characters!
Watch the robotic cat Doraemon, the
Minions, and the Ex Machina movies!
Believe me those fictional movies can make
you feel happier
And your imagination trained to grow and
expand greatly
Your belief and hope for the better world
will grow stronger
Your love and interest in science will
develop as well largely
If you believe that God exists and cares for
you
There’s nothing wrong at all with this
belief you hold
Because you believe that God exists and
pays attention to you
You do hope that your God will do
anything good for you and the world
To believe is to live by hope, faith, expectation
and vision
To believe is to see, view and wait for
the endless future
To believe is to live holding and
carrying out great vision
To believe is to live as human beings of
the future
In your hope, faith and belief in your
God
You’ll do for yourself anything great,
dignified and noble
For your neighbors, for fellow creatures,
and for the world
For your religion, your country and
nation, and your people
Richard Dawkins and his colleagues ruinously opine
That religions are viruses of the human mind. No way! Richard Dawkins and his colleagues ruinously opine
Religions in your hands should be the great vision of the future
The better future for humankind and the world till eternity
Know that the most dangerous thing in the world
Isn’t the God Delusion that Dawkins unkindly attacks
But actually the Dawkins Delusion it is!
Beware of it, from beginning to end!
As believers, you are the agents of social change
Change first yourself, then your society,
your nation and the globe
Hand in hand with other people of good mind
and good will
Make the world better, just and peaceful
for all
To believe is to have the source of mental power and energy
To believe is to have the source of mental power and energy
That you need in your daily life
stretching to the far future
To believe is to live cheerfully and
courageously
To believe is to live as human beings of
great future
God loves anybody who is courageous to
believe in Him
Even though atheists say that God is not
in existence
To believe in God is to have abiding hope
for Him
Where there is hope, no despair will be
in existence
Be valiant to believe!
Change yourself, life and the world into the better ones
Via your intelligent, noble and critical beliefs!
Show to non-believers that your religious
beliefs
Will heal and empower yourself, the world
and all creatures
So, don’t be afraid to believe!
Be valiant to believe!
Be intelligent to believe!
Be kind and noble to believe!
Jakarta, 28 September 2015
Ioanes Rakhmat
Ioanes Rakhmat
