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Current mood:  rebellious Category: Religion and Philosophy
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
In my search for God, I've concluded that conclusive evidence exists that proves that the deity known as God, is a fraud. Yes, God is a Fraud!
Just from me operating three different versions of this page on MySpace over the past five years, I've also concluded that people who believe in their God, do so ever so fervently. I've also learned that most Christians lack any tolerance toward those who think, feel or believe differently than they do. The fact that MySpace caved in to their complaints in the past and deleted this page twice, is proof of that alone. Atheists don't go to Christian MySpace pages and send in complaints en masse to the MySpace Customer Service, so why do they? It's very simple. Most Christians possess a sense of superiority, and feel that they have a god-given right and duty to admonish those that oppose their God, or the Bible. God is a dangerous myth that was invented by needy people and con artist who want to control and make money off of gullible believers.
Three problems present themselves forcibly to my mind that suggest that God is nothing more than a convenient invention. First are that those who most strenuously preach the rules of their religion. Those who dictate what is sin and what is not, tend to be sinners against their own rules when the facade is torn away. The hypocrisy of the legislators of sin being devout sinners under the skin repels even me.
The second problem I have with the concepts of God that many people hold is the contradiction and hypocrisy of the believers. The hypocrisy part is similar to the legislators of sin being sinners themselves, only this latter example involves the practitioners of the religion rather than it leaders. They simply don't follow the rules they supposedly subscribe to, but yet still stand in judgement of others who do exactly as they do.
The third problem I have with the concepts of God is modern science. Religious claims can all easily be disproved by modern science. I'm not talking about the false science of Christian Intelligent design, an idea which was developed by certain American creationists to reformulate their argument in the creation-evolution controversy to circumvent court rulings that prohibit the teaching of creationism as science. I'm talking about real science. Many believers treat the Bible as if it were perfect and without flaws, infallible and error-free. The truth is that the Bible has lots of errors, mistakes, and contradictions, especially scientific inaccuracies and historical errors, which only reflects the naivete of the ancient authors. The Bible claims to be the inspired, inerrant Word of God. If it is what it claims to be, then it cannot contain errors of any kind. If it is not what it claims to be, then it cannot even be trusted in maters of theology, much less science and history.
Contradictions abound in the monotheistic religions. God is a vengeful God, but he wants us to be peaceful. God is a peaceful God, until he wants his followers to go to war and die if necessary to defend the faith. God is an all knowing God, until those evil godless scientist started popping up, as well as the blasphemous Discovery Channel and Science Channel. However, faith itself cannot be killed, unless every last believer is either educated in the basic sciences, or completely annihilate each other in war. Some say that God punishes sinners for every sinful act they commit. The same believers will claim that their own particular sins are forgiven because Jesus (or some other prophet) died that their sins may be forgiven. Some actually believe (and can quote Revelations as evidence) that they can sin abundantly for their whole lives, then repent and be saved on their deathbeds and still be admitted into heaven. Convenient.
Even the concept of heaven is absurd. To most Christians, heaven is a place of eternal bliss, usually only available to devout and pure Christians, and sometimes their beloved pets. The Christian heaven is as boring as I could imagine. Where every bit of intellectual strength I have gained throughout my life will be lost through atrophy because the inmates have nothing to think about. The Muslim heaven must be populated by an uncountable number of virgin hookers because Muslim suicide bombers are promised 72 of them each. However, the Muslim promises of heaven may be limited, due to the fact the virgins may get tired of having sex with people who have to blow themselves up in order to get laid. Judaism spends so little time on the concept of heaven that many Jews are not even clear about what heaven is. This confusion may have led to the inordinate number of Jewish comedians.
The point here, as stated in Einstein's quote, is that people have invented their respective God with human characteristics. Several Gods even feature an exaggerated phallus. Maybe that's where the tradition of getting on your knees in prayer started. Step back from that a moment and consider the absurdity. Believers agree that God is perfect, but present evidence in holy books that God has as many failures and foibles as any foolish human, with the exception to the strictly mortal human condition of erectile dysfunction.
Atheists have disavowed anything to do with God or the religions that invented God, and have embraced science. Is it any surprise that atheists tend to live more wholesome and beneficial lives than religionists? At some point in the future, the rest of civilization will follow the lead of atheists, and will cease believing in a God, and embrace science as well. The real sinners here are actually those who perpetuate all the hate which comes naturally from religion. Religion is a form of mass delusion or at the very least a paranoid wish-fulfilment. Fighting in the name of God is just as absurd as people fighting in the name of Santa Claus, or the tooth fairy. I can almost visualize the righteously nice in the Crusades attempting to win the affections of the Santa God, by trying to annihilate the evil naughty in his name. They know that the second coming of Santa God to town, isn't going to be good, for the bad, so they must be "good" for goodness sake!
War is heaven, peace is Hell.
God is a Fraud!
Satan can be found at...
myspace.com/TheDevilSatan
3:24 AM
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