I just remembered watching “The Reaping” and Hilary Swank giving the 10 Plagues a scientific explanation. I’m much of a skeptic as the next person, but I have faith. Keep saying that because, even though I question a lot of things mostly the church, I still tend to look for a divine purpose. Call me naive, but that has never failed for me.

I often ask “Why?” Why me? Why them? Why now? Why does it have to happen?

You have to admit that you ask that too, more often than you think. It just proves that even though science has answered a lot of question and proven a lot of things, there is still so much of the world we haven’t even started to comprehend and maybe never will.

For atheists, I think we should all be thankful for having a God. I don’t believe in religion, because it divides humankind. It’s obvious that we believe in the same things, we only call it different names and we worship them in different ways. Humans interpret things differently too, so matter how much you have faith on your religion, interpreting it and carrying out as a mission solely depends on each person.

Instead of being united, as God would want us to be, we persecute other religions because they are different from us. Being different was never wrong, but because of our world’s history, it has induced fear. Fear of the different often leads to poor judgement. Fear often blinds us to what is important, we see things that aren’t there, and in turn we don’t see what must be seen.

So anyway, I’ve thinking a lot about the 10 plagues. It’s kinda a random thought that pops in my head.

Science have given it explanation. I’ve always believed in facts, so I believe it.

For those who haven’t heard of it, or read it:

In 1400 B.C., a group of nervous Egyptians saw the Nile turn red. But what they thought was blood was actually an algae bloom which killed the fish, which prior to that had been living off the eggs of frogs. Those uneaten eggs turned into record numbers of baby frogs who subsequently fled to the land and died. Their little rotting frog bodies attracted lice and flies. The lice carried the bluetongue virus, which killed 70% of Egypt's livestock. The flies carried glanders, a bacterial infection which in humans causes boils. Soon afterwards, the Nile River Valley was hit with a three-day sandstorm otherwise known as the plague of darkness. During the sandstorm, intense heat can combine with an approaching cold front to create not only hail, but also electrical storms which would have looked to the ancient Egyptians like fire from the sky. The subsequent wind would have blown the Ethiopian locust population off course and right into downtown Cairo. Hail is wet, locusts leave droppings spread both on grain, and you have got mycotoxins. Dinnertime in ancient Egypt meant the first-born child got the biggest portion which in this case meant he ate the most toxins, so he died. Ten plagues. Ten scientific explanations.

NOw of you read closely, it doesn’t look like God gave plagues at all, right? It seems like a series of natural incidents. Nature is god, again, Paganism is just another kind of belief, but believing in nature is just the same as believing in an actual god.

I looked at it again, and it seems like God gave just one plague, and it seemed like it wasn’t even that big of a deal. The one people didn’t notice: The algae.

It’s the same isn’t it? Why?

Why has the river turned to blood? Why did the fish die?

Here’s another question: How?

And with that one answer, everything seemed to make sense. If people were smarter back then, they would’ve figured it out. There weren’t ten plagues, just one, it just had a lot of effects.

For me, God is subtle. Like a ripple in a pond. he touches the water and looks as the ripples get bigger and bigger, but it soon dies down. He throws one small problem at a time and he lets nature takes its course, like free will. That’s why small things should never be taken for granted, it’s often the small things that he gives, we just have to wait for the ripple to get bigger.

*note: hey we all have our own opinions. leave me to mine, but I'm interested if you have something to say. ^^