Vestige Lyrics

If one's to invoke the wager proposed by Blaise Pascal one has to justify their hedging of bets

For it seems to me that each choice that one makes is as arbitrary as the other when one considers the options available

For they cannot all be true many beliefs proport to be the one true path

Given their contradictions it's more than likely that they are all false ideas

A vestige left from a time when we required faith for the things that we could not explain

My proposition is such, one should withhold belief until sufficient reasons to present themselves

If I could invoke a principle that values the simplicity of adopting the default position on the matter of faith

Over positions that suggest a being of infinite complexity was the first cause and thus engage in infinite regression

Why would one still elect to believe in such a being who in all of their omnipresence omnipotence omniscience watches on with indifference

An all-loving Father becomes much more akin to Big Brother when these powers are utilised not to improve instead to

Maintain order punish thought crime police language promote newspeak and double think

One could argue that a lack of positive interventions is indicative of a being of inherent malevolence

However I would argue that silence speaks volumes in that it's not met the burden of proof

Thus I adopt the position that the absence of evidence is in fact evidence of absence

If I could draw attention to the fact that believers and I are the same there's many faiths to which we do not subscribe

The only difference I've rejected them all they still hold on to one how is it that such levels of irony are not self-evident

Why would one still elect to believe in such a being who in all of their omnipresence omnipotence omniscience fails to make with an appearance

Convenient that some should be born into the right religion which has a god who just like them has all the same intents to

Maintain order punish thought crime police language promote newspeak and double think