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It appears that humankind needs gods in one form or another. Man's urge to put faith in a higher power has been a major factor that has affected the course of history. In fact, perhaps it is humankind's faith that has enabled the species to achieve all that it has achieved. Humankind keeps on creating, producing, overcoming hurdles, advancing itself to higher planes, spurred on by its faith. But is it actual gods or is it humankind's need for gods - an inner void inherent to our species - that lies at the root of all this progress? If the latter is true, who is man's savior?
 
Nihilism vs. Humanity, by Jesse Zuretti of The Binary Code
 
Society, instead of being a surrogate to the juncture of nature's atmosphere, is alternatively a capable articulation. The apparatus and institution of society,” the structural economy and politics, code, androgyny, religion, strife, etc ”are demonstrations of mankind’s ancestral susceptibilities against alliance and intellect. The foundation of society engrosses ethics and systems that amalgamate around founding axioms that don't need to be equitably true. The cardinal damage of society is expressed by the societal accountabilities that humans are coerced to incur, and the chances for personal gain that they are coerced to forfeit, all for the matter of continuing an ideal level of societal accord and certainty. Altercations in regards to these damages cause increase to societal outbreaks, cultural wars, and disputes between societies and other civilizations.
 
It has deliberately become apparent to me that with a lack of some kind of faith, more so congruent to modern, contemporary society than the god’s of the past, we are a void. The estate of faithful/less-ness boils down in its essence to nihilism and cynicism; and it does not prove to go over well with a majority of humans. A kind of depression collapses on any society that suffers a loss of its faith in its old-time god’s, and continues to be in a malaise until it is provided with newer ones. Humans like to have safeguards, points of acceptance that they obtain without question, and therefore by annotation post refusal to challenge. When clear as dishwater situations arise, these components of faith administer answers. When catastrophe attacks they provide solace. Faith, and faith in its solitary, can apply a human with the sensibility of direction and the ambition that allows them to understand their own existence as something more than a worthless tide on the ample, turbulent stream of humanity. Faith empowers a human to face up to his own mortality.
 
What I hope to conclude in this blog is to equip statements about human condition that may not be conclusive through scientific method, but that a focused humanist can bring aboard as matters of faith without the sort of continual cognitive dissonance that a modern and enlightened human experiences when you have to absorb the books/themes of faith that the old-time god’s instruct--comprised first and foremost the instruction to believe without a single question that that old God’s exists.
 
As of now, we have a pretty good grasp on human condition: the process of which we advanced through time and space and developed into what we have become, so there is only a single, rational solution to the equation of human existence. Humanity has developed quite a bit and evolved through various lines and equations of societal code and organization. All throughout pre-history and history, all of the tribes, all of the cults, and every single nation has re-organized its version of a godhead it can provide worship to. Every description is custom-tailored to the necessities of the group subscribing. Religious faith as phenomena has affirmed almost in every place in the world to be an ever-so-powerful agent of human societal evolution. To the degree where we can now reflect on where we came from (with some security).  Had it not been for the quintessential human-capacity to construct our creators/gods, we very well may have not attained where we are as of now
 
Maybe that is the ultimate answer to the question of faith for our generation and for generations to come. We might understand enough to create the idea that there is something special about human existence, and our species as a whole, something that has created turbulence amongst the Darwinian applecarts which administered all of the other species and plant life on our planet, and hand-delivered us on our very own unique trajectory. What we have obtained grants us some assurance that as we go beyond our own amelioration and progress in apprehending ourselves and society, we will eventually find other components and processes operating (and still fully functional) to enable us to overcome the major hurdles of our current society. Is this unacceptable will to dictate faith from an acute, acquainted, modern human, faith that humans are in fact their own saviors and emancipators, and that we will eventually subjugate? 

Foreword written by Curran Reynolds.
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