God in 2010

Where is God these days? Today in 2010 God is hard to find. It seems like today people generally don’t believe in God as much. It’s hard to go online or turn your television on and watch and listen to all the horrible things that happen to people and that people do to each other each and everyday and believe that there is a God. Another thing to consider is the level of how much God is needed these days by people in general. Back in the middle ages people strongly believed in a God. They also believed in an afterlife. They were convinced that if you were a good person throughout your life and helped others when you could you would be rewarded when you died and would go to heaven. This helped them get through their tough lives of working over ten hours a day and living in poverty. Believing in God and heaven made life bearable for them. Today there isn’t nearly as much of that. Most people don’t go through their whole lives with the thought that one day they will finally die and they will get the rest they deserve. The church also took advantage of this and used religion as a scare tactic because people needed to believe in God. Today people’s lives are a lot easier overall and they don’t need as much of a stimulus to push through life. This leads them to be less dependent on the idea that there is a God and heaven which in turn leads them to be less afraid of the consequences of not making it to heaven. This ends with less people strongly believing in God, and without belief how can God be here in 2010?