Saturday, March 6, 2010

Why I Don't Believe in God Pt. 2

(Continued from my previous post, which explained why I stopped believing in only christianity)

Universal God/Polytheism;
So, my next belief system was something like "All the monotheistic religions are describing different encounters with the same god". This idea basically comes from recognizing the similarities between the different monotheistic religions. Really, they're all the same in their basic general ideas. But what really got me out of this way of thinking was science. One thing that almost all religions have in common, certainly all of the mainstream religions, is that their gods have the minds of a human. God apparently cares about who you lust after, who you kill, who is elected into office. God seems to have something to say about everything, and always seems to agree with the person speaking for him. No one says "god is against gay rights, but I think he's wrong". People said what THEY thought, and then quoted some religious text to support it.

But here's the trick; the universe is huge. Think about how huge it is for a moment.... Yeah, you're not even close. There are more galaxies in the universe than there are stars in our galaxy. If you look at the earth in volume, including everything below the crust, only about 10% of the earth is habitable by humans. More of the earth is made up of bacteria than humans. If you honestly think that the person who created all this actually cares whether or not you wank off to a picture of Charlize Theron, you're ridiculously self-centered. Thinking that such a being would care about the human race in general is ridiculously self-centered.

(Continued in Agnosticism/Pantheism)

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