God vs Religions 1
Explains why the religions are, in fact, blasphemous
GOD VS RELIGIONS 1
God is above and beyond all religions.
All religions are blasphemous because they put words in Gis mouth. None of them truly represents Gim. They are based on the wrong premise that Ge cannot reach each individual directly and separately and therefore needs an agent to do so. Therefore we need to liberate Gim as well as mankind from all religions.
There are people who deny the very existence of God. I do not. A young man once told me that he did not believe in Gim because he could not see Gim. Our conversation ran somewhat like this.
“I don’t believe in God because I can’t see Him with my own eyes.” “Have you seen your eyes?” “Yes.” “Where?” “In a mirror.” “So, what you have seen is the image of your eyes, but have you seen your eyes themselves? How do you know that they exist?” “I have seen the eyes as well as their images of other persons and therefore I know that the images of my eyes truly represent my real eyes.” “Just the same way, we accept the existence of God by experience and not by seeing Gim. Ge is not for us to see but to feel and realize just as one can experience electricity without seeing the electrons. We believe in things like China’s Great Wall, North and South poles, etc. without seeing them and without ever intending to see them, don’t we?”
So, I do not question the existence of God. But I do question the validity of the tall claims made by Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohamed etc. of being Gis incarnation or Gis sole representative authorized by Gim to make rules for all mankind to follow forever. Another article will focus on specific religious fallacies separately. ( Religious Fallacies ). This article will deal with the common ideas.
When we use words from our lives to refer to God, we inadvertently also impose our weaknesses and shortcomings upon Gim. Of necessity, we do have to use such words, but we should be conscious of the limitations of such uses. For example, creation by humans requires time and work necessitating rest. For God, creation would be instantaneous and effortless causing no fatigue. Ge would need no rest. Yet the ‘creationists’ assume that Ge took six days to create the universe and then rested on the seventh. How ungodly! Also, when we talk about going to Gim, we imply that Ge is away from us. How can we ‘go’ to Gim since Ge is everywhere including within ourselves?
Almost all religions consider God to be omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. Many of the rules prescribed by the same religions violate this basic attributes. For example, since Ge is present everywhere, it does not make sense to consider one place holier than any other or to move away in search of justice like Moses did. He should have stayed put and demanded equal rights for all people within Egypt. Since Ge knows every thing, it should not be necessary to pray in a language other than one’s home language. There is no need to pray in Sanskrit, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic or any other language not spoken at home. As God is all so powerful, no religious leader should try to ‘protect’ Gim by proclaiming others as blasphemous and passing sentences for being so. Ge can Gimself punish the miscreants. For instance, the death sentence imposed by Ayatollah Khomaini on Salman Rushdie only proved the ayatollah’s lack of faith in God. If Ge is really upset with Rushdie, Ge has ways of Gis own to punish him and would not need the ayatollah’s help. And, if it were so godly to kill Rushdie, why would one need to be paid a reward for it like the ayatollah offered? The same can be said about punishments proclaimed by other religions.
Observations reveal some important characteristics of God.
One, Ge does every thing by setting up automatic systems i.e. Ge is the ‘Great Automater’. Ge makes days and nights automatically by making the earth rotate on its axis. Ge makes seasons change themselves by making the earth revolve around the sun and tilting its axis. Everywhere in the universe, there exist automatic systems.
Two, God recycles every thing as evidenced by the water cycle, nitrogen cycle etc. Therefore, most probably, Ge recycles souls too by causing repetitious births and deaths.
Three, God loves variety and is far from being a cookie-cutter as can be seen from the numerous species of animals, plants, rocks and what not!
Four, God is a ‘Great Equalizer’ and maintains the averages. One way Ge does this is by getting together spouses of dissimilar nature and qualities. For example, if all handsome men were to marry only beautiful women, there would be a segment of population that would be handsome and beautiful with another segment just the opposite. But God brings together handsome husbands with not so beautiful wives and beautiful women with not so handsome men so that the children turn out to be in-between. The same can be said about other attributes of husbands and wives.
Failing to realize these attributes of God leads religions to make incorrect statements about Gim. For example, Ge who loves variety would never want all men and women to be identical, yet many religions prescribe codes that would make their followers look, pray and act alike as if they were the soldiers of an army or mechanical toys.