Let's define God.
God is a being which transcends (exceeds) all laws and limits. He is all knowing, all powerful and all loving. God created everything. This is the common summation of God.
Some believe that God created everything in 6 days and others believe he created everything in 6000 years and the more intelligent and realistic people believe that he caused the big bang and "guided" the universe to create the sun, the earth and life and then "guided" life itself to evolve into humans.
I'm going to assume the latter, (the last one) because I'm trying to convert the intelligent people of the world. Those who still believe that the earth is 6000 years old, still have to come to terms with the fact that science is right. Or, at least, more so than the bible. Who here believes that the earth is flat, or that the sun revolves around the earth? Science, when trying to describe the real world, is more successful than religion. Religion (if you believe in it) is more successful at describing the afterlife, but shouldn't be applied to the real world. but I digress...
Okay, so God is above everything. He created the universe. But who created God? Did he just... exist? Some of you will say "yes" at this point, so let's move along.
Okay... so the big bang is the start of the universe. But what caused the big bang?
Does the universe just... exist? Some of you will say "no, God did it," at this point, so let's move along.
So God "just exists" and the universe does NOT "just exist." Why? What makes God so special that you can apply logic to EVERYTHING except him?
"God is beyond reason and we cannot begin to conceive his way of thinking."
Then why does religion pretend to do it? The bible describes God to us. The bible even goes so far as to tell us what God thinks, what he wants, what makes him happy or sad and what his home (heaven) looks like. It even tells us what he wants us to do:
Worship him.
If I was all knowing, all powerful and all loving, I wouldn't send people to hell just because they don't worship (try to talk by praying, offer their entire lives, force their beliefs unto others, etc.) me. I'd make the world... well... habitable.
Which brings me to my second point: Why is the earth such a bad place? Christians can usually ignore this by not reading newspapers or thinking too hard... or at all. Have you ever seen real poverty, experienced death or suffering?
Every year, more or less a million people in Africa die of Malaria. They just die. (I'm going to focus on this point, but the same could be said of AIDS, Influenza, Floods, Poverty, Droughts, etc.)
Imagine all the people in a high school. That's between 1000 and 2000 children. If an entire school were to be killed in a day, it would be a tragedy. Now imagine a sports stadium. The world over, EVERYONE would hear of it. Now imagine 20 of those sports stadiums. That's how many people a year die of ONLY malaria.
And most of them (according to the Christian religion) go to hell. Because they don't know who this Jesus guy was. More than 60% of the world (that would be more or less 4 Billion people (alive today, not counting the future and the past) will burn for all eternity in a lake of fire because they don't know about or believe in Jesus. About 90% (wild guess) of them never even had the chance to get to know Jesus.
So, if God exists, why does he punish people for something they don't do?
"Because he gave us free will," some of you rationalise.
So let's get this straight. God created the universe and everything in it just because he wanted to create humans. (Isn't that a very conceited way of reasoning?) And then he gave us a badly designed body and free will. Then he created various ways for the world to kill and torture us (Virii, Diseases, Natural Disasters...). And then he told a SINGLE MAN(Abraham) about Himself so he could go out and spread the word to people in his area. Because He loves us?
Ha!
And if he WANTED us to worship him, not have sex before marriage (did God invent Marriages?), not covet, etc.
Why did he make us WANT to have sex so much, covet everything we don't have, etc.
All I can conclude is one of two things:
God does not exist.
Or
God hates humans. (NOT all-loving)
And why would he create a universe 94 Billion light years across just to create a semi-habitable space about 0, 00000000000000000001(I can't find the real number, so I'll use this) light year across? If he really was all powerful and really wanted to create the universe just for humans, wouldn't it be more logical to create a completely habitable place? Or at least 1% habitable? Compared with the 0, 0000000000000000001% habitable.
Yet again, I can conclude one of two things:
God does not exist
Or
God is stupid. (NOT all knowing)
And all powerful?
How do you know this, if God is unfathomable and cannot be described? How does anyone make the claim that God is all knowing/all loving/all powerful. The ONLY reason to believe this, is that other people make this claim, and you believe them.
God never demonstrates that he is all powerful. People only say
"God is all powerful!"
"Why?"
"Because He said so."
They, of course, use the same argument to prove his existence.
Here are four interesting links to pages you should watch/read.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Christianity
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