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The Slow All Mighty God

March 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Some of the fundamentals things about being atheist is seeing through all the bullshit problems of the presentation of creation in the bible. One such thing is the idea of the all powerful creator taking a whole week to create everything, when everything (according to the holy scripture) is the earth and our solar system plus a vague idea of “a lot of stars”.

A week. Because God is so perfect so awesome and powerful it can be done, but, hold on, if it took a week does it not mean that the all-powerful and unlimited is actually limited – when in top speed God can create a part of our visible universe in a week. Actually not a week, because God took the last day off to rest. Why would an perfect creator take time off – and from all things – to rest?, that implies that God got tired, can God be tired?.

Some would argue that the idea of the week is to make us humble humans more comfortable, that on our limited perception of time (which is indeed limited) we can not grasp the actions and the speed in which the creator acts. For those flexible believers those 6 days of work (plus one of rest) can be pressed into the first moments of the big bang or stretched across hundreds of millions of years until, say, the earth forms and starts to cool.

Here we get to a second, maybe even more important point, we are told that the bible (old testament) is the word of God, it was given to the Hebrews and it – literally, the book of God made by God, if so, why would the perfect makers who is also the perfect author of books not avoid mentioning time altogether and walk around this problematic issue of timing (and maybe also not to be embarrassed by the one day rest thing).

To us atheists it is simple, no mystery here, this was made up by humans, who desperately needed to explain a lot of things like who made what (God) when did it happen (in the beginning) and for whom was it made (why us of course), these ancient authors also added to this a format of the days of the week, as long as you’re laying down the basic rules might as well frame time into days. If a perfect creator would exist this being would probably not need to rest and would not take a week to work his magic.

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Filed Under: The Fundamentals Tagged With: creation, God, why did it take god a week to create everything

Global Twitter Trends and God

September 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Oh, just saw this, it looks like this is trending now “God Loves You” on Twitter (globally). This is almost sad, this angry men made god of ours who people seem to think loves everyone – except those who do not accept their version of God, these poor souls will burn on earth and roast in hell.

I really needed to answer this one, so based on a statastic I recently got word of I added my own twit, “If God was real, would he love you? If you’re not one of the 22,000 children who are going to die today, I guess he does.”

Now Trending - September 22nd 2011
Some Children God Does not Love so Much

Filed Under: Atheism blog Tagged With: God, twitter

… and God Told Man: “Dont Leave, I Need You Around”

May 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment

"Please Love Me, I'm Bored"

The connection between god and men is a strange and puzzling, why would the supreme creator of everything obsessively ask and demand respect from its creatures, as well as monitor their every move, in the kitchen, in the streets and in the bedrooms?

It seems to me that its has something to do with the evolution of man-made gods, or actually with the development of the idea of god itself. In the ancient times  there were many gods, and people followed the ones they liked, like twitter – only for gods instead of people. They needed to show their love to their gods if they wanted any help, which made sense to them at the time due to the very human nature of gods. So gods were angry and jealous, they were fearful or greedy, they were like men, and if you wanted them on your side you needed to play nice.

The Greeks took it a step forward, not only improving the myth around gods but putting order to the whole thing, arranging a wide range of personal gods under the same discipline, which meant that you had less a chance to offend anyone by following a certain god, since they were all now cooperated. The Romans followed, keeping all along the idea that gods are like humans, only stronger, and that they have needs just like any of us. In fact they needed humans to worship them in order to keep their powers, they needed people to believe in them.

And then the almighty one god appeared, shaking off all the semi gods on the way, but retaining the idea that god needs people to be a god, and that it needs constant attnetion and praise, even though it is a perfect being, still needs attention… shame really.

God is so painfully man made, and so evidently flawed, that only the ones that are stuck in the dogma fail to see the light of truth, if you are a believer you are in a room without windows, believing that you are in a constant night, and you keep being nice to something that needs you to be nice – now that can not be godly.

Please, we have burning issues all around us, from politicians who sell us to corporates to poverty and hunger on a monstrous scale, that we need to focus on now and on the real priorities of our race, investing one second on something that is not there and never was there is preventing us from dealing with the real, terrifying, issues.

Filed Under: Atheism, God & Friends Tagged With: God, Greek Gods, Poverty, World Hunger