Ecclesiastes says that everything "under the sun", including pleasure, hard work and money is ultimately "vanity" i.e. meaningless if it is not connected to obedience of God.
Obedience of 'God' will be meaningless and senseless if you have no money, hence always go for earning more money first (legally of course) before everything else.
Go for science rather than what ranjiao 'Obedience to God'.
The Case Against “God” and the Illusion of Obedience
For centuries, humans have filled the gaps of their ignorance with gods. When thunder roared, it was Zeus. When disease struck, it was punishment from an unseen hand. Every mystery once had a divine explanation — until science arrived. Each discovery, from lightning to DNA, has pushed “God” further into retreat. As Neil deGrasse Tyson aptly said,
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
If a deity truly governed existence, the evidence should be overwhelming, not evasive. Instead, what we find is a universe that operates by consistent, discoverable laws — gravity, relativity, quantum mechanics — none of which require divine supervision. When a plane crashes and one survivor thanks God, science demands we ask: what about the hundreds who burned alive? Invoking “God’s will” is not an answer; it’s an excuse to stop thinking.
Obedience to scripture — unquestioning, blind adherence to ancient texts — is perhaps the most dangerous inheritance from our past. It replaces curiosity with compliance. The Bible, Quran, and other scriptures were written by men who did not know the Earth orbits the Sun, yet their followers claim these texts contain “absolute truth.” Tyson reminds us that “the moment you are satisfied with mystery, you stop seeking answers.” To obey such ignorance is not faith; it’s intellectual surrender.
Science, by contrast, thrives on doubt — not dogma. It does not demand belief; it demands evidence. The same method that eradicated smallpox, landed rovers on Mars, and reveals the birth of galaxies 13 billion years ago, asks no worship in return. It simply says:
Look closer.
“God” explains nothing and halts progress; science explains everything it can and invites progress. Every candle of understanding we light banishes another corner of darkness once labeled “divine.” The history of human advancement is the story of replacing superstition with knowledge.
The truly moral act is not obedience to an invisible authority but responsibility to each other, to truth, and to the fragile planet that birthed us. As Tyson notes,
“We are stardust — a way for the cosmos to know itself.” There is no greater reverence than that.
In short: The idea of God persists because it comforts. Science persists because it works. One demands faith; the other delivers truth. The choice between obedience and understanding is the choice between darkness and light — and the universe, not scripture, holds the real answers.
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