Say that I am 2-d. The 3-d world that I cannot see, I do however see a projection. What moves in 3-d traces out a path in 2-d. That path must be consistent with the 3-d happenings, yet it does not fully describe the truth of the entire path.

Following the projection we come to intersections that do not occur in 3-d–proverbial forks in the road. One fork is faithful, the other consistent yet backwards. We approach those forks with a question and continue on our path from thereon with the same question in mind–did we take the true path?

Eventually, as we go on we may find that we must have been correct or perhaps we were not as we see further projections that may or may not be consistent with the path chosen.

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Religion
n 1: a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; “he lost his faith but not his morality” [syn: faith, religious belief] 2: institution to express belief in a divine power; “he was raised in the Baptist religion”; “a member of his own faith contradicted him” [syn: faith]

Faith is believing in something you can’t see. That’s not really a matter of an awareness of an unresolved question, because if you have faith, there is no question. You believe because you have faith. You have faith because you believe. I don’t know which came first, I just know I’ve had faith in God–a higher power–the omnipotent, the powerful, the creator of all things, since I was a child.

It is the faithless who have unending questions; these are the people who live in a two-dimensional world and have no vision; believe only what they see, or can touch.

I had a friend who worked as a nanny for two lawyers. They were gone all day, leaving early in the morning, getting home late at night. She began to play with them–imaginative games–like “let’s fly around the room because we’re butterflies”. The kids were elated, and they followed her in wonder and excitement. Only, the next day, her employers gave her a stern talking to. Games like that were not allowed.

I can’t imagine living a childhood where I couldn’t let my imagination run free–where I couldn’t dream, where the only things I was allowed to think about were what was concrete and never the abstract.

There is a whole spiritual world out there that sadly, people like that will never ever have an inkling as to what it’s all about. And it’s difficult to convey what it’s about to someone who is relatively myopic.

And, at least in the Judeo-Christian faith, there is that passage that goes something like ” … cannot know ways of God”–sorry, the exact phrase escapes me).

So I am taking a broad view of this question.

Just as the question IS resolved in the minds of Atheists and Humanists, who have chosen to believe there is no creator, therefore we are all here due to nature taking its’ course.

Unresolved question arise, I believe, for those that have no faith and no opinion as to how we came to be or why we are here.

Thank you for your comment.

Let me throw out a possible answer, “Religion is the awareness of an unresolved question in regards to one’s existance.”

For your toughts and comments.