Random Scribbling

When we look at things objectively, we see no ultimate meaning, which creates cognitive dissonance; because our very selves, our self-aware minds, demand and desire meaning. So when we do not find it, we become angry; we collapse. We have something in us that is not satisfied with a lack of meaning. We toil and seek for this meaning, and at times we even create it. This innate yearning, it seems, at least within Western society, is the reason why atheists are often unpopular with the general public. There are people in this world who are ok with a lack of meaning. But are they REALLY? Also, on the other side of the coin, are the religious extremists and fundamentalists ok with denying the scientific facts? Are they really willing to give up reason so easily? I mean, a great philosopher once said in so many words, "Blind faith is one hell of a way to repay the God who endowed us with the capacity to think and reason." Or Galileo's quote on the subject, " I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use." Are these two deliberately opposing factions guilty of a sort of existential denial? Is there, somewhere deep inside them, contradicting thoughts? There must be, they are just kept hidden; and by both parties. Science and Philosophy deal with the structure of reality; Theology is the study of what gives that structure meaning. Our minds cannot let go of either one of these in fullness. We cannot survive without structure and we cannot survive without meaning. The toil between the religious and the non-religious since the dawn of thought is a mirror image of what goes on within the subconscious of every single human-being. It is human to wrestle.