Saying this is something that may destroy many of my relationships… and I feel like it’s going to be tragic, and a bit of irony if this does happen. The problem is not with God. I have never met God, nor has God spoken so directly to me that I can say with absolute certainty that it is he or she. The problem is with the logic that is used behind God. If I were to write a book, and proclaim in that book that I was a god, I would be called a mad man. If I then pointed out in the same book that the book said that others would not believe in the book, but that the book is totally true, I would be laughed at – forever. Circular reasoning, in effect, is not reasoning. The Bhagavad-Gita is to be taken as true because the Bhagavad-Gita says it is to be taken as true. In education, we cite sources, or use empirical evidence gathered in some repeatable, verifiable manner to support the claims we have made. Yet, weekly, hundreds of thousands of people turn up to give their time and money to a cause that bases itself on just this type of circular logic. The issue is not one of who God is, and what he does, but rather who we claim God is. We do not know, and in fact listen to people who lie to us, or at least themselves, about their experiences with a higher power. Certain circles will have you believe that there is one God, an all-good, all-knowing, most-merciful God, who also happened to deal with the first born children of an opposing clan, lose his cool a few times and drown a few thousand people, give-or-take the entire world. If we break it down to a more logical level, it’s effectively asking us to say that we like our father over our mother, when they both disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle when we were just two-months old. The only records we have are parchment, which we selectively compiled. It is saying that the burning bush can speak, but the la diablesse is not real. For me, God is whatever God is. I can’t know, or at least I don’t know. The religions themselves claim that God is unknowable because he just operates on a different level, just before and after trying to describe God’s nature in various scenarios, many of which contradict. At the end of it all, I’d be hurt by what religion has defined God as. Unfortunately, religion has us too busy defending religion, and the book that it’s based on, that we have not yet realized that it has described God as a bi-polar, schizophrenic, jealous, short-fused, clumsy, and ineffective ruler. I don’t think that a good God would be that at all.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 03:50:23 +0000
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