Sun, 22. April 2012
Judgment Day
Well, I don't have any reason to believe there will be a judgment day. I could be wrong though. I'm receptive to any new evidence which might be presented to me, although after two thousand barren years, it's impossible to understand where the new "killer" information will come from. To me, religion is a like a parallel universe. People go about their daily lives in a real world and expect everything to happen with "normal" cause and effect but religious folks also have this (delusional) alternate world view where their god intervenes and sends his angels to look after them, working miracles and answering their self-centred prayers.
I reject that flip-flop duality because there is no evidence for it. However, I'm happy to answer a hypothetical question but I wouldn't want you, dear reader, to think I'm taking Pascal's Wager.
So when god booms at me to explain why I didn't believe in him, I would respond as follows:
1. Sorry god. You gave me a brain and I used it. You left me no evidence of your existence. You could have appeared in the sky or on tv occasionally, so we would be able to believe. Instead of writing that ridiculously contradictory book, you should have written something useful. Instead of getting ignorant peasants to ghost write it, you could have written it yourself in plain language that we could all understand. Instead of telling us you came down to Earth to sacrifice yourself to yourself, to save us from yourself, why didn't you tell us about the Universe, or electricity, or democracy? Why didn't you give us a plain English code to live by like >> this <<.
2. Before you get on with judging my miserable existence, could you please explain your own abominably awful biblical behaviour - you know - all that slavery, genocide, infanticide, incitement to murder, human sacrifice, great floods, favouritism, discrimination and irrational behaviour?
3. I would like you to know that your self-appointed personal representatives on Earth, the Catholic Church Corporation, disgust me. If that offends you because they are your friends, I'm not sorry. They nurtured mass-paedophiles for centuries and covered up their apalling crimes. I have only revulsion towards an organisation that displays such lack of compassion and respect for it's victims as it does. Why did you give your godly stamp of approval to those bastards?
4. While I have the opportunity, I'd also like to ask you whether Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny exist too; and before you express how much you love me by sending me to be painfully tortured for all eternity, could I please have a quick word with the other 2000+ gods invented by mankind over the last few thousand years?
5. Can I please hear a talking snake before I go?