Sunday, February 21, 2010

There is no god: Reason #1

Think of the 3 most powerful religions on the planet: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. These Abrahamic religions make up more than 50% of the total human population, which is currently calculated to be in the neighborhood of 6.8 billion people. There are approximately 2.1 billion Christians, 1.84 billion Muslims, and a paltry (by strictly quantitative standards) 13.2 million Jews. Perhaps, it is more important to consider how much power is centralized within these religious groups. North America, Western Europe, and Russia are all predominately Christian regions, and also contain massive amounts of wealth and power. Also, consider the Middle east, which is predominately Muslim, and is glutted with trillions of dollars of oil wealth. Also, in the Middle East, we find Israel, which contains most of the world's Jewish population. These two centers of power only have India, China and the far east to compete with, which are the only strongholds of metaphysical dissent on our planet.
Bearing that in mind, the God of Abraham (who is the one figure revered by all three of these faiths) has an unfair advantage over opposing points of view. Adherents to these faiths will of course argue that is because there is no god but god and he is the truth and the law. However, how do we know that? I was raised Catholic, and all through my childhood, I prayed. I prayed with firm belief and unfaltering faith. I wanted desperately to speak with god, but he never engaged me in conversation. He never even showed himself. Now, of course, the pious will argue that I was lacking in faith and conviction, but that topic is neither here nor there. I simply bring this up because that is how I began to realize as a teenager that god did not exist. Since then, I have been mentally compiling evidence, and I will present the first item here.
I will argue that there is no god because according the Abrahamic religions, god is kind, just, and loves humanity. Now, of course, all the war and horrible crimes and atrocities committed by humans are commonly used to argue against this idea. It's a valid argument, but not a strong one. Rather, I present to you, dear reader, this hypothesis: there is no god because his religions are anti-human. Why would god, if he loves us so much, want us to kill each other? Consider all the hatred and violence endorsed by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Judaism is materialistic, Christianity is sociopathic, and Islam is psychotic. All three are homophobic, racist, and misogynistic. All of these psychological damaged viewpoints have provided endless fodder for non-stop war, rape, assault, and murder. These religions, despite what they espouse themselves to be, actually encourage these behaviors.
Judaism teaches it's adherents that since they will spend the afterlife as a servant of god that mortal life is the time to accumulate wealth and power, as it will be taken away when the body dies. Christianity teaches their flock that one must accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior or they will spend eternity in hell and torment. Finally, Islam teaches its practitioners that if one does not accept that Allah is the one true God and Muhammad is his prophet, then one should be executed and all who refute this "truth" must also be summarily killed. There of course is the shared view amongst the three faiths that homosexuals must be executed, women must be subservient, and that god has only one chosen race of people - which varies from faith to faith.
These aren't exaggerations, and one needs not delve too far into the doctrines of these religions to realize that these are the kinds of beliefs that these faiths promote. To sum up the doctrines of the Abrahamic religions in one, I feel the most obvious choice is evil. Since god is supposedly good, and the tenants of these faiths are anti-human (when god supposedly loves people), I offer these items as my first reason why god does not exist.

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