Intellectual Acceptance

The more intellectual duels I read on FB - or see on the news - the more I realize that we all need to keep in mind that, at the end of the day, our beliefs are based on... [drum roll]... beliefs. Whether you think there is a God who controls all outcomes and takes a personal interest in your life, or a system of rules that govern the chaos within, with no vested interest in individuals, it all comes down to belief. Of course, a scientist can legitimately state the system of rules embodied in physics, chemistry, biology, etc, are much better explainers of the past and predictors of the future, but, when it comes to the outright origin of 'truth', scientists may very well be just as wrong as religious scholars. I - personally - believe that science offers a better foundation for understanding the world, but I also - personally - believe that there is a threshold between physical bodies and spiritual bodies that science cannot penetrate, even if so-called spiritual realms are merely biochemical reactions. At the end of the day, we all try to use the tools available to us to make sense of the world and deal with the ups and downs of everyday life. So long as there is no imposition of beliefs, we should try to occupy a live and let live kind of world, though I would not force this upon anyone ;-)