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God made man in his own image. In other words, God is a biped, with a cra­nial cav­ity sim­ilar to the human cra­nial cav­ity. Now, does any­one want to pon­der how big God’s head must be if he is all knowing?

In order to exist, God must know everything, or God isn’t God. If he doesn’t know everything, he isn’t all-powerful or omni­scient. That leaves the pos­sib­il­ity that you can know some­thing that God doesn’t know. Do you believe it’s pos­sible for you to know some­thing God doesn’t? I mean, if you know it but God doesn’t, wouldn’t that mean that your decisions are bet­ter informed than God’s? Wouldn’t that neg­ate the omni­science of God?

Now, con­sider what God must know. Either God is the greatest sci­ent­ist who ever exis­ted or God is a mad sci­ent­ist throw­ing things together and hop­ing that they work. Or, maybe you believe that God is more of a designer, rather than imple­menter. Either God designed the DNA of every liv­ing thing or he designed the amoeba then left it to mutate on its own. If God is just the designer then God cre­ated a Petri dish and we are the funky green stuff that star­ted to grow.

But, no, God made man in his own image so God must have known about the DNA of man; how the incisors would be used to rip flesh, how the mol­ars would be used to crush grain. How the heart, liver, pro­state and G-Spot work. God saw that it was good (Holy shit, it worked!), and God decided to make a bunch more anim­als, some to be killed, some to be hunted to extinc­tion, and oth­ers to be manip­u­lated by the earthly cre­ations, because, of course, God’s grain wasn’t “Round Up Ready”.

If God had thrown things together, there would be evid­ence that some of the stuff is not work­ing. But, since everything is work­ing, as evid­enced by the laws of nature, his design was flaw­less. Since everything works, there must either be “chance” in that the things which are work­ing, fusion, orbits, galaxy’s fly­ing through space, and it’s a ran­dom phe­nomenon, built up over time, such that everything is left to the “laws of nature” or, God knew every instant of every moment in time where there would be plan­ets, galax­ies and suns. God knew every orbit, or God flung out plan­ets suns and galax­ies to work or not work. That would be chaos.

Grav­ity. If we reach back in time far enough, there is a great cloud of dust and this dust has some prop­er­ties: grav­ity for one, tem­per­at­ure for another, and no life. If we assume that God is all-powerful and all know­ing, then he is look­ing at this cloud of dust, and know­ing that molecule x, y, and x will even­tu­ally end up in the cigar of Joe Cap­it­al­ist who will be sit­ting in a bar in Dal­las plot­ting the assas­sin­a­tion of Pres­id­ent Kennedy. The other option is that God said, “let there be light”, and some of the molecules sud­denly burst into heat form­ing the stars. Then this greatest of sci­ent­ists, the one who designed it all, “saw that it was good” or basic­ally said to him­self, “Holy shit, it worked!” So God made the firm­a­ment, sep­ar­at­ing the earth from the sky” and God said “Holy shit, it worked!” and God made the anim­als, “Holy shit, it worked”.

And God worked for seven days and said, “this work­ing shit sucks, stuff that, I need a break!”

The Petri dish explan­a­tion implies that God is not in charge of the laws of phys­ics, and in some sense, God doesn’t even fully under­stand the laws of phys­ics. The explan­a­tion is more suited to a child who has been given a cre­ation set which allows him to make mud pies and pop­u­late the mud pies with ima­gin­ary new anim­als. But these anim­als do exist. They have a dis­tinct DNA code that must be both stable and provide per­fectly for their defence, sur­vival, and repro­duc­tion. Either God knew all of this, and planned all of the inter­ac­tions between the dif­fer­ent spe­cies, down to who would be a pred­ator, who would be a slave in Egypt, and who would be best suited to stab Caesar in the back. Or, God mixed a bunch of shit together and poured it out into a cos­mic labor­at­ory, hop­ing that it may catch hold and exist.

Do you really think there is a being that is going to plan a heaven for all of the creatures he has cre­ated? Or is it really the ‘chosen’ that is spoken of in the Bible? Think about it. Put your­self on the moon in a nice com­fort­able chair and look back at the earth. Look at it’s cit­ies, its wars, it’s teem­ing pop­u­la­tion of humans, run­ning about, doing their thing, some of them facing Med­ina, some facing the Cross, some dan­cing and chant­ing, and tell me that this God of which you speak, this greatest of sci­ent­ists, loves his auto­matons, or Petri dish, the one who knows the DNA of every animal, the exact laws of phys­ics, and the course of time, tell me that this God loves you, human #4219716721, so much, that he wants to spend the rest of etern­ity with you.

Because this God, who so loved the world that he chose a woman who was afraid of him, got her preg­nant, and then “gave his only son, so that the world could be saved”. He loves you, even if you cre­ated the atom bomb, even if you dropped that atom bomb on Hiroshima. This God who you say is all lov­ing, all-powerful and all for­giv­ing in the name of his son, this God who loves slim Jim’s and pro­cessed cheese spread. This God wants to hold you to his bosom give you a big kiss and send you off to play in the heaven of your belief.

And how much con­trol does this God claim? This God who wiped out the world but saved Noah, didn’t save the Jews in World War II, or maybe that was thin­ning the herd? How could your God allow more people on this planet to believe in other reli­gions than Chris­tian­ity, but des­troyed Sodom and Gomor­rah? This is pretty incon­sist­ent for an all-powerful being that thought up grav­ity, molecu­lar cohe­sion, astro­nomy, DNA, and the food chain.

And you know God must have loved the per­son who sent me the spam e-mail that says “Rip Her Twat Apart With Your Wal­lop­ing Sized Meat Wrench”. Yep, God loves every­one in a per­fect love, isn’t God wonderful?

And what about prayer? I’m find­ing it a bit more than absurd to think that God is going to grant a prayer for human #4219716721, when it requests a job, world peace, or maybe a wal­lop­ing sized meat wrench.

I heard a woman behind St. George’s church cry­ing that “God answers all her neighbour’s pray­ers”. They have nice cars and big houses, how come He doesn’t answer my prayers?

Maybe because a being that is too busy hold­ing the laws of nature together doesn’t have time to send his account­ants down to fill her stu­pid little requests. But, no, the church says that God will answer your pray­ers. What an amaz­ing dude. But, don’t ask for the proof that God exists. That’s the one thing he abso­lutely will not do. Faith is the only way to heaven. You must swal­low the line, believe and then this all-powerful God will decide to throw you into Hell because you didn’t toe the line.

You see, Gods just too busy these days to stop the towers from blow­ing up or smite the evil­do­ers of the world, but rest assured, he really does want to spend etern­ity with you and the rest of this teem­ing mass of human­ity, and anim­als, and plants. Oh, I for­got, anim­als and plants don’t go to heaven: just human souls. Not fuckin’ likely.

You’re on your own chum, and the only thing you can do is to get by as best you can for the brief time you exist.

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