You can't be God if nobody exists but you.
Sure, you are taller. But, taller than what?
Sure, you know more. Know more than what, though?
See, a SUPERLATIVE is the last step among comparisons: Good, Better....BEST!
God is good? Not all by himself! Good for what? Says who?
Anyway...you get the idea....
Read on...
Man seems to want something just like himself only much more profoundly superlative to be IN CHARGE of everything.
Man wants another MAN in charge! But, invisible, of course! Enter: GOD.
Mankind seems to die. Alot. And always.
So, mankind needs the Superlative Man-like invisible guy-ish GOD to have a plan to remedy this situation.
IS THIS GOD A SUCCESS so far?
Mankind still dies!
The agents for the man-only-invisible-and-Superlative-God insist He has the power to change life and death!
But, everybody still dies!
These agents (call them preachers, priests, holy men, gurus, shamen, etc) will insist it is Absolutely True THAT SERVING THIS GOD will lead to REWARDS........um....eventually.......but, you can't see any of them........um.....yet!
Just listen to HIS AGENTS as though you were listening to....um....the invisible all-powerful HIM!
example?
Muslim men can have lotsa virgins if they die serving the cause..........on the other side of....um....what seems to be "death" but really is only a doorway to paradise!
Do you believe the Terrorists are now in Paradise with their 40+ virgins enjoying a grand old eternity as a reward for flying planes into buildings and killing non-Muslims??
Of course you don't!
Why?
If you are a RELIGIOUS BELIEVER you have a similar (if not as extravagant) belief. Only: YOURS seems completely plausible.....to YOU!
My point?
This:
Just how much of a SUCCESS is God.....so far?
For Christians we are told God wanted things a certain way and humans screwed it all up.
Is that success?
For thousands of years God has been like a troubled rich relative with ungrateful relations driving Him to distraction.
How successful is this annoying anger and homicidal treatment? God drowned, (so we are told) the entire population of Earth (except for 8 people and a core of animals.) Is that a SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRATION of any sort?
Love? Forgiveness? Something? Anything?
God hand-picked just one tiny nation among all earth's inhabitants to be his.....um....uh...WIFE: Israel.
Ho...boy! You know how that marriage went!
Do you consider it a successful marriage?
God had a son that He loved more than anything. So, He sent him to be tortured, mocked, scourged and executed publicly!
Is that the sort of successful behavior you would expect of somebody WHO IS POWERFUL AND IN CHARGE OF THE UNIVERSE??
I mean, really?
So, God still wants these wretched, sinful, disgusting humans to be one big happy, loving (dysfunctional) family.....eventually.
But.............
He's going to have to MURDER ALL THE REST OF THEM.......BILLIONS OF THEM!
Is this actually a successful plan by a Supreme Mind?
Or, has man's telling of this story gotten all twisted into something more like the mind of Adolf Hitler would think up??
What was Hitler's Plan?
Rule the world with a master race and kill everybody who didn't measure up to his standards!
Is God's plan any different?
Just how much of a SUCCESS is God.....so far?
You tell me.
