just nate – code is poetry, life is code

Earlier I wrote about how I have been on a journey of discovery in an attempt to decide whether or not to stay in the church of my upbringing, and I likened this to the Amish practice known as Rumspringa.

I think my journey has ended. Without incredible evidence with which I am not yet familiar, my conclusion is that the church is false and that I would do better on my own. This is not an infallible conclusion, and so I leave the door 1% opened. Any more would be unnecessary and limiting.

Rene Descartes believed that our senses are inaccurate and not a good truth-measuring tool. He concluded that the only way to learn truth is to use reason. Descartes suggests removing all preconceived notions of truth, and adding back only those portions which can be proved reasonably and logically. “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

I followed this model, as closely as I could. I doubted as much as possible. And I am left with the conclusion that the God hypothesis has some glaring holes.

Just saying.