Ultimate Reality & Religion
The concept of Ultimate Reality is the source of constant debates as is the concept of religion. Ultimate Reality (what many consider the metaphysical existence of God) when placed within the bounds of nature can return a value not equivalent to the ideological beliefs of the religiously or non-religiously minded. For instance, Ultimate Reality for a Hindu could mean the presence of a world beyond the realm of the natural, a universal cosmological construct in an abstract realm bound by alternate realities where the concept of one God does not exist. In this realm beyond nature the concept of the Ultimate Reality is Brahman, nirvana to the Buddhist.
This denotes the being’s transformation into oneness with metaphysical nature (the Ultimate Reality). For the agnostic, scientific or the atheistic, Ultimate Reality may equate to quantumized values within an abstract universal structure that define life. Life exists because of evolutionary processes and infinite universal laws seen and unseen. Finally, for the Christian and other like religions, Ultimate Reality can mean God, the Creator, Sustainer of all universal life and constructs. Therefore, the concept of religion varies.
Incomplete Philosophy
According to Nietzsche all we have created, the foundational constructs of the material world in its entirety, is ensconced in the Christian and religious doctrines of the world.
Nietzsche (1974) depicts a world without God, a world framed by nothing. The idea of God and religion, Nietzsche implies, has framed our world and all hinges upon this concept. If God was omitted from the equation, then our dependency on God would be revealed yet the world would stand. Where is God, we have killed him. How could we drink up the sea, wipe out the horizon, unchain the earth from the sun (Nietzsche, 1974)? Then Nietzsche questions our intellect. Are we not unhinged, moving in all directions plunging continually?
Without God it appears the world would become unstable, yet in reality it does not. Religion, the foundation of all our framings, when taken away does not impact the true nature of reality. However, Nietzsche’s world is unconnected, religion is subjective as is the concept of God. Nietzsche overlooks one important aspect of reality, the underpinnings of our existence reside in laws buoyed in the realm of the metaphysical, nature, this is why religion makes no difference. As Nietzsche illustrates, the world (in reality) will continue to exist with or without humanity’s belief in God. We are left to ponder the greatest question.
Why?