360 Degrees- God

God. Never anything more baffling to the human mind has been “discovered” or “existed”. Let’s look at the human-tied origin of this supernatural being. In the early centuries, God or nature, rather, served humans in a quid pro quo relationship. We would sacrifice and they would provide. As time went on, these celestial beings became personified as humanoids, as we could imagine no creature more worthy to bear the image of the gods. As centralized states began to emerge, gods were used to back up a certain leader, and threw the “voice of god” priests gained immense power. Why follow a mere man, when your neighboring state followed a God-king? You can imagine what persuasive power such divine rule could have over a people.

Nowadays, religion and belief in God has warped dramatically. This general population has become increasingly informed and belief in magic and miracles has dwindled significantly, and religion has needed to adapt in order to survive. We now believe in chemistry as opposed to alchemy. Most of us prefer astronomy to astrology, and magic has been left behind in favor of physics. However, Creationism has been surprisingly stubborn.

People will ignore a billion year database full of evidence (the earth) as well as the changes that are occurring around them. Why? What is the driving force that defeats all logic? Well, simply put, man is above the animal. God created us in his image; we are his children of divinity. We cannot have come forth from lower beings.

It is not surprising that of all of the religious ideas, this one has survived, as the entirety of Christian faith is essentially built on the notion that man is the highest of beings on this earth. Why else would the Son have been manifested in a human body? Humans possess greater knowledge and reasoning than that of the other beings. Have we not built great works, composed great songs, written great literature? And what has the monkey done? And the foul snake? Barbarian nature does not even compare to the brilliance of man.

Why does literature make man better? How are great works the medium for deciding if a race is better? Who placed this definition? A lifestyle built on an arbitrary guideline?

Oh, but this is why believers are undeniably right. Religion is built on faith. I, being a religious man, can answer anything you bring up. I have FAITH in my God. I am NOT a monkey. God loves me. I believe that the Earth is a few thousand years old. Fossils are tricks orchestrated by the devil. Fossils were placed to test my faith. In the end, I realize that past events do not matter. God tells me to be a good person, and I must be. The love of God will always win.

Religion exists to teach the lost children of God to be a good person. The Bible is not to be taken literally, neither are fables. The underlying moral is what must be communicated. Without a moral code from the heavens, the devil would surely consume the entirety of humanity. Without God, without the guiding light, there is only darkness and deceit. Atheists throw morality to the winds, if there is not order there is chaos.

On the other hand, why does there need to be a God for one to be good? Are you admitting that if you didn’t believe in God you would be a worse person? Why can’t humanity just decide to be good because we are human? If we are all good to each other, everyone is happy. It is depressing to think that humanity needs a carrot of salvation and a stick of damnation to be nice.

A study conducted by psychologists John Darley and C. Daniel Batson found that people that were instructed to give a speech about the story of the Good Samaritan and its modern day implications later stopped to give aid to as much as people who were instructed to give a speech about job opportunities. The deciding factor ended up being how much of a rush the subjects were in rather than what they knew or were going to give a speech about.

Furthermore, an experiment conducted by Solomon Asch concluded that one third of people will supply an obviously wrong answer if they see three other people give the same completely ridiculous answer. Subjects were shown the image above and asked which line in Exhibit 2 was the same length as the line in Exhibit 1. One third of subjects answered B or C after they witnessed three other fake subjects answer either B or C (all three times).

There does not need to be a God, but it is true that adoration and lust will only lead to suffering. One must seek enlightenment and attain Nirvana. The world is full of sin and hate and only through inactivity and moderation can this suffering be replaced with true bliss.

Through SUCCESS, not inaction, humans find happiness. The ability to provide for our children is an evolutionary imperative. As times change, the means by which we must ready our children for the world changes correspondingly.

You need look no further than the earth itself to find evidence of God. A painting must have a painter. The complexity of the human body is undeniable proof for intelligent design.

No, you cannot apply a human biased relationship to the universe. The dust on the windowsill is a product of physics not a dust-maker. The tides come in and out due to the gravity of the moon, not because of the hand of a god. A human template cannot be extrapolated as a trend for all of nature.

Atheists have provided the idea of the Big Bang, and claim to be the agents of reason, but it is they who are making leaps of faith. Something cannot come from nothing. “A high composition of heat and intense mass caused the universe to explode into existence.” And where did this high composition come from? Your answers lead nowhere. God is uniquely key to explaining the existence of anything.

Why must the universe have a beginning? Matter cannot be created or destroyed. Remember the conservation of mass law. I suppose it’s natural for scared and insecure humans to apply truths about the fact that their birth and death did/will occur with certainty to the universe. This is much like the fact that the notion of “heaven” now exists solely to comfort children and the infirm.

Again, there are no grounds for believing that a beginning or a god exist(ed). More importantly, this brings up some intriguing things about time. Our perception as we experience it is an infinitely small unit of time. Theoretically, a human could be alive for an infinitely small amount of time and only REMEMBER the past, as memory is a physical manifestation of a tendency to avoid harmful things or to strive for ecstasy. (see post on “Memoria ex Machina”) But more to the point, one cannot dispute that time can be perceived infinitely small, thus isn’t time infinitely long in either direction, by definition? The universe is boundless; can time not be as well?


But, in the end, we can never really know. An atheist can never prove, with all certainty, that God does not exist, and a theist believes on grounds of faith, and thus cannot prove to science that God does. Thus, it is better to accept that people will believe different things and that one can simply never know… or can we?