God And Civilization

I was reading an interesting essay about the never ending discussion about the existence of God, and I came across a very telling chart.

One thing took my attention; Europe seem to believe less in God than the Americans, even though it was the continent that exported religion to the two American continents. The reason in my opinion is that, the more civilized a community is (UK, Germany, France as the chart shows), the less it needs to look for a God, and maybe the less God himself cares about making this community know about him. On the other hand we see that a country like Mexico (which is less civilized than Europe) has a much higher ratio of believers. I also have to admit that I can not see the US as civilized as Europe.

I always thought of this idea and today I find this nice chart supporting it somehow, God did not send his messages to be worshipped, but to make communities better. Anyway I don’t mean that when we Arabs become civilized (that is after the oil ends and we get shocked and we start to be humans who have to learn and work to survive instead of buying something we didn’t manufacture (oil again) to survive), I don’t mean that when this happens we will not need to believe in God.

Clementine from Israel

Since last week, I am in Paris, for work and not for joy, and the weather proves my point. Still it is lovely to walk in the streets of Europe; it smells like life there, all the time. Even though it was raining heavily, I thought of going downtown. I have no problem with rain anyway. Walking with a friend, and looking around, we came across a grocery. Very clear to me was a paper written on it “Clementine from Israel”.

I came closer to the Grocery and looked; the name of this Clementine was Jaffa. Without hesitation I bought a Kilo and went home to eat it. It tastes just lovely, a million times better than the Spanish one that our supermarkets here are full with. It costs three times more, but it’s worth it.

My friend refused to eat from it. I don’t care where my money is going to, I just know better now that they are not fighting there (in Palestine) for religions, history or such nonsense; they are fighting there to control the production of the most delicious Clementine on earth……. And it’s worth the fight.