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A 12 year old boy lays trapped between 4 walls, confining him to his so-called new home. He has no hopes, he has no glory , he has no future. Why? He is a Jew. Though strangled by the hauling walls of the room, his mind ponders…why am I here? Why is there so much pain and suffering? Who am I? Though most of us aren’t faced by the same situation, we too are trapped. Life is like the grey walls of prison forcing us to implore the reason for our existence. Who are we? Why are we here? To answer these questions and to place our mind in this false sense of security we cling to the idea of religion. Why? Why are we inclined to immerse our selves, in the idea of an “omnipotent omniscient benevolent supernatural being who created a world full of disease sorrow accident hardship and death,” rather then follow the path for science? Why is religion the distinctive response for the human search of ultimate meaning?

Well, at some point of our life, usually before we embrace death, we......

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