// We have the facts and we're voting Yes!

You think you know the world you are living in. If you can feel it, and touch it, and smell it, and taste it, then it must be so. You tell yourself that you would bet your life on the simple fact that the sky is blue. And then one day someone comes along and informs you emphatically that you're wrong. Blue, you insist. Blue as the ocean. Blue as a whale. Blue as my daughter's eyes. But that person shakes his head, and everyone else backs him up. You poor girl, they say. All of those things - the ocean, the whale, her eyes - they're green. You've gotten them mixed up. You've had it wrong all along.

Isn't it strange how perception affects our basis of knowledge? Imagine you're colour-deficient and can't differentiate between blue and green. So as a kid even though you've been taught that the sky is blue, you pick up a green crayon to draw a cloudless sky. And your best friend sitting beside you tells you that you're wrong.

What if one day we all realise that there's no such thing as God? What if there is really no Heaven and Hell, and the Bible was just written by a bunch of really idealistic people? What if the thing we believe in wasn't true in the first place?

Scary stuff.

But you know something else that doesn't start with 'what if'?

In this world, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not. What matters is only if it will be believed or it won't be believed. Say some TOK idiot convinces everybody that there's really no such thing as God. That whatever Christians have believed in is non-existent. That our faith has been wasted on something useless. Hogwash. Bollocks. Poppycock.

Would I stop believing in something I found so real in my life? Would I regret how I might've lived in a lie all this while? Would I start looking for some truth the world approves of?

Or would I continue to trust in the One who showed me light through the darkness, follow the One who makes my paths straight, and love the One who first loved me?

You don't believe in something because it's the truth. It becomes the truth because you believe in it. The day when people stop believing in something, that something disappears from the world. But if at least one person believes it on Earth, it exists.

And since no one really knows the truth anyway, then just choose what you want to believe in. With all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. :)

// We have the facts and we're voting Yes!

You think you know the world you are living in. If you can feel it, and touch it, and smell it, and taste it, then it must be so. You tell yourself that you would bet your life on the simple fact that the sky is blue. And then one day someone comes along and informs you emphatically that you're wrong. Blue, you insist. Blue as the ocean. Blue as a whale. Blue as my daughter's eyes. But that person shakes his head, and everyone else backs him up. You poor girl, they say. All of those things - the ocean, the whale, her eyes - they're green. You've gotten them mixed up. You've had it wrong all along.

Isn't it strange how perception affects our basis of knowledge? Imagine you're colour-deficient and can't differentiate between blue and green. So as a kid even though you've been taught that the sky is blue, you pick up a green crayon to draw a cloudless sky. And your best friend sitting beside you tells you that you're wrong.

What if one day we all realise that there's no such thing as God? What if there is really no Heaven and Hell, and the Bible was just written by a bunch of really idealistic people? What if the thing we believe in wasn't true in the first place?

Scary stuff.

But you know something else that doesn't start with 'what if'?

In this world, it doesn't matter whether it's true or not. What matters is only if it will be believed or it won't be believed. Say some TOK idiot convinces everybody that there's really no such thing as God. That whatever Christians have believed in is non-existent. That our faith has been wasted on something useless. Hogwash. Bollocks. Poppycock.

Would I stop believing in something I found so real in my life? Would I regret how I might've lived in a lie all this while? Would I start looking for some truth the world approves of?

Or would I continue to trust in the One who showed me light through the darkness, follow the One who makes my paths straight, and love the One who first loved me?

You don't believe in something because it's the truth. It becomes the truth because you believe in it. The day when people stop believing in something, that something disappears from the world. But if at least one person believes it on Earth, it exists.

And since no one really knows the truth anyway, then just choose what you want to believe in. With all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. :)