Faithless

What is hope?Hope and faith are two different states of mind.Hope is when one individual prefers a certain outcome over another.It is just relative.Out of the different possibilities a person hopes that the event which is most beneficial to him takes place.This can also be evasive, a person may hope that an event that causes the most harm to him does not occur.Also, hope provides the mind with something to think about else rather than the problem.Faith is the manifestation of Hope.When an individual hopes and believes that an event will occur, regardless of its probability, it is called faith.Faith can be harmful.when someone believes that an event will definitely occur regardless of its probability, it causes the individual to think irrationally and take wrong decisions.Thus, faith is nothing more than a delusion.This delusion can be seen in the individuals who believe in the divine, omnipresent form of God.They believe that god is watching over them, and if they are good then he shall save them from various problems and they shall be given a chance to join him in heaven after death.If not, he shall punish them and they shall rot in hell with his nemesis.Even though they never see an intervention by God, they still do believe in it.We shall discuss more about the belief in God later for now lets just focus on faith.Faith can cause people to act in peculiar ways.Faith can even lead to war and genocide.This genocide is caused by religion, which is a result of the faith in god.Although it may sound very peculiar, an ideal world would be a world free from faith.Dont get me wrong, the ideal world i am talking about is not an emotionless world, just faithless.This world may sound very gloomy but it will not be so.Without faith, science would not be bound to the Bible, knowledge would not be limited to the Pope and Freethinking would not be constricted by the fear of committing sin.Like everything, this has a few drawbacks too.Crime would increase since people would not fear burning in hell for the rest of eternity.There would be a sense of Barbarianism since without the believe in God, an individual would not give much regard to morals and ethics, even though they have nothing to do with god.However, this problem is a minor one since it can be kept in check by changing the way of upbringing accompanied by a well organized system of education which focuses on achieving enlightenment instead of instilling the idea of happiness being related to money and power.Another problem would be that many people would lose their jobs because there would be no need for temples,churches,priests,popes etc.Without faith, technology would boom at a pace unimaginable specially in the life sciences department.Before we know it, people might even start creating new life or even achieve immortality.Some would say that this is opening pandoras box, some monster might just come out, but i'd take my chances with a monster than believing in some divine, omnipresent, all knowing, non-existant diety existing in another world but still somehow affecting our world.