“If God is real, then he is a real jerk.”
by J.E. Morris
(age 11)
Folks, I have seen the face of God. Sorry, but it’s not a tornado by day and a pillar of fire by night. It’s not that famous burning bush who told Moses to free the Israelites from the iron fist of Ramses. It’s not a fist that falls onto the Israelites’ enemies. It is an elaborate fairy tale written by some old men on lambskin and bound with two big wooden cylinders, draped with purple velvet, silver, and gold.
I used to believe my religion blindly, for no reason. Then I realized that it’s nothing more than an old myth, but with even less explanation. As a matter of fact, the story of God’s creation of the world defies the laws of mathematics, logic, and science. For instance, how can God be tired after saying, “Let there be light. Let there be darkness. Let there be blah blah blah”? And what happened to the dinosaurs? If God created light and darkness, then what did it look like before darkness and light? A paradox even Escher could not paint, an impossibility. Besides, what kind of God would start a chain reaction (by turning fossils into polluted fuel) that will someday end in an Apocalypse? Definitely not the one described in the Torah, of course.
I wrote this all down by hand quite a while ago, when doubt of God’s existence first started to creep into me. Why would the ever-forgiving Lord curse me with a hot temper that will last forever?
Ever since then my faith in God has died away slowly. I know that the universe, planets, stars, and life did not develop and evolve in the ridiculous time span of seven days. No, it took eons and billions of years. Oh, and what about that poor soul, Zach Sobiech, who wrote the song “Clouds”? One day this smiling, laughing fellow realized he had only two months left to live. Be glad he decided to live his last days to the fullest instead of moping around. He just died this Monday. And what was the purpose of his life dramatically shortening? So his family would experience the tragic loss of a man who always seemed to have a magical aura that made those nearby happy? You may say, “Oh, God has his way of working things out that we never know.” Ha! That cruel excuse has been used for millions of years. God was used as a highly flawed explanation of how the universe works. Now we have science to prove that all sights of God and all supposed visits to the Afterlife are hallucinations, and God has no logical reasons for all the tragedies in life where science does.
If God is real, then he is a real jerk. He makes people suffer and gets away with it.
It is amazing how people are still blinded by what they have been taught in Sunday school. It is funny how people still don’t look toward science and instead look toward religion. Mind you, we are not at the center of the universe. If we were at the center of the universe, then the Earth’s gravity would have to be super strong, too strong to develop life forms. If God is a talking, living being, then he would need to eat, drink, breathe, and reproduce. How can a being without a physical body fulfill these needs? How can a being be everywhere yet nowhere at the same time? And how on Earth can there be a being who was never created by anyone/thing, who has always existed, even before time?
The answer to every question above is the same: it’s physically impossible. It is impossible to fulfill your biological needs when you do not have a physical body. Heck, it is impossible to live yet not have a physical body. It is impossible for a being to be everywhere yet nowhere at the same time can (only the Higgs Boson Field and mysterious energy in the universe can do this). It is also impossible for an object, whether it lives or not, to exist without its day of creation or birth. If God were to be real, then he would violate some crucial laws in almost all aspects of science, creating multiple paradoxes in one package.
To be continued, no doubt.
