Religion...

Sometimes I have a hard time with religion.  I want so badly to believe in a higher power, but then logic takes over and science infiltrates my mind to the point that it just doesn’t seem reasonable that all the Bible stories I’ve learned for the past seventeen years of my life are valid.  Proven scientific theories, like evolution, completely contradict the story of Adam and Eve.  And for that matter, are we supposed to literally interpret these stories, or take some sort of subliminal message from them?  And then there’s the whole conspiracy theory that the Bible was made by a bunch of religious officials way after the supposed dates of the actual events.  If you think about it, the whole idea is kind of genius—make everyone believe that there is a higher power that will punish them if they don’t follow a specific set of rules (that the officials could have made up themselves) all so that they could just get everyone to do what they wanted them to do and have an society to their own specifications.  But then things like what just happened to the woman I work for happen.  She should have died in childbirth, but is already back on her feet after hundreds of people prayed for her.  That seems a little too crazy to be a coincidence.