Wednesday, April 21, 2010

What God?

I hate god. I hate the idea of one. I hate people that live every moment of their lives by his "word". To me god is an idea that enables people to do whatever they want whenever they want to do it because they can be forgiven. This to me seems like an option people to use not take responsibility for anything. They use the idea to explain anything that cant be explained. They fill the gaps of the unknown with their allah, I don't claim to be perfect, I have made many mistakes in the past, so for me to claim that I have never blamed someone else would make me a hypocrite. One thing i do not do is use god as an excuse. This day and age has seem some of the greatest minds of humanity come and go, I'm talking about the past thousand years. Minds that looked into the unknown and used their understanding of the workings of the world and attempted to explain the great mysteries. Guess what, they didn't look at their god, at his "all knowing wisdom", they looked at science, the natural order of things. Shakespeare used his magical melody of words to enlighten and inform the masses. Gutenberg, who introduced the printing press, albeit he printed the bible, he introduced the idea of mass distribution of literature. Einstein, who gave the world the outstanding special and general theories of relativity, not to mention helped create the deadliest weapon ever made by man. Charles Darwin, the man who studied animals and discovered evolution, currently the prevailing theory on how we got here. Not gods garden of eden where two humans gave rise to every human on earth today. Slowly yet surely the gaps are starting to fill in, expanding our understanding about the way things work. The idea of a god is an ancient one, one that needs to go away in order to expand human potential to the maximum. In this apathetic atheists point of view people need to realize that god does not control the universe, he doesn't forgive you, he doesn't condemn you, he didn't create Adam and eve. We created him, in a time when our minds were filled with fear and wonder about this great unknown place called our reality. We put our hands in his "great plan". To be able to hope for something, to be able to live knowing we weren't alive out of a random coincidence. People think god exists, why? Sure I live a good life, i am fed, I'm sheltered and i have good friends and family. Then i look at places like Africa, where death, destruction, starvation and plague are the standard. I don't believe god exists because he allows bad people to live, and innocent people to perish. Now, not because I am an American, but for other reasons, this for me is an exceptionally hard subject to touch on. Nine eleven, two thousand and one. I could go on for hours but I'm not, I'm going to make one point on this. Three thousand Americans died because the "terrorists" flew two planes into the world trade center. This in itself is not the shocker to me. People die, people get killed. To me the problem was these guys did it under the impression that was their way into heaven, that's what their god wanted. Now what seems to have happened here is that 4 guys flew 2 planes into 2 towers, killing 3000 innocent people so they could go to heaven and their god? The math doesn't add up here, if there was a god, something like that would never have happened. Killing innocents in your name is not the greatest way to inspire faith in people. My faith in god, my loyalty to him, my love for him, died that day with 3000 other people. It would seem to me that we are indeed alone. It was an awakening to me, it made me realize that there are far superior explanations as to how we got here. Not one of them having to do with god. Do I hate god? yes, yes i do, very much so. I hate the idea of him, I hate that people will kill for him, I hate the idea that he is almighty. To me god is no more real than the devil or the goddamned boogeyman. So I am stating, once this god delusion is out of the way, We can finally move ahead in our enlightening of not only the universe around us, but ourselves as well

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