A Bored God

On a Bored God:

# 12-14 billion years ago god created the Universe
# 5 billion years ago he started with our Earth
# 3 million years ago he started with humankind
# 150,000 years ago he started with the current version of humankind
# 5,000 years ago he revealed himself to humankind (so they say)
# And for only 2,000 years he has been able to "enjoy" Christian people

On a timescale of the Universe (100 percent):

# the Earth has existed for 42 percent of the time
# Apeman existed since 0.025 percent of the time
# Humankind itself has existed for 0.00125 percent of the time
# The Christian faith has existed for 0.000042 percent of the time (rounded upwards)
# The time God has been able to enjoy Christian people is 0.000017 percent (rounded upwards).

Thus, god has, for 99,999982 percent of time (rounded downwards = 1,199,999,784,000 years), been bored, has done nothing. He has been waiting for us, only to leave us behind "alone" once again. Why? For eating an apple, that's why! I know time is nothing to God, but this is preposterous.

The oppression of mystified principles

Throughout the ages, human beings have been on a search to find the unknown and baffling events occurring around them. To those which were beyond his comprehension, a supernatural force was set as the cause. This practice kept evolving through the course of time and culminated into religion.

In effect religion is nothing other than age old practices, without rationality in order to please “gods”, which were just a creation of our imagination to explain fundamental questions like why we are here and what purpose we serve.

People say that religion has brought peace into many people’s lives, but do not forget the fact that it has also brought in conflicts and hatred. Religion has all the characteristics of any other human invention. Just as when humans discovered the power of the atom, it was up to him whether to use it for peaceful of harmful purposes, religion also can be used beneficially or detrimentally.

But then one can say the religion turns out to be a necessary evil, but is it so? Let’s not forget why religion and supernatural beings were created by us in the first place, it was to give reason for the phenomenon around us to which we did not have answers to then. But now because of the emergence of science and development of human understanding about the world around us, we have answers to most of these events and the need for putting a supernatural cause to them becomes unnecessary. But then why did we cling on to these age old beliefs and practices? Since now we had definite proof to disregard these myths it seemed natural to let go of these thoughts of supernatural beings controlling the world around us.

When such ideas which disproved those taught to us by these religions emerged, people did not want to believe them because it was so widely accepted that it was true. It was period when modern science had breakthroughs and started dispelling these myths. Since science had hard evidence which was believable and religion did not, scientists and radical thinkers were termed blasphemers and heretics. But slowly more people became enlightened by scientific data and started doubting religion.

In order to suppress such a widespread skepticism, religious people found a way to merge both science and religion by saying that the universe was created by “gods”, and we were not to question it. And also explained that his ways were so much higher, that what we could not explain them, hence again coming to the routine of putting supernatural origins to the things science couldn’t explain.

It would’ve been fine if people said that a supernatural being created us since truth be said we really don’t know, it may or may not be, but it is illogical to expect them to be as preached by the different religions. Blindly believing in these stories is absurd when looking into the fact that these predict not only what is happening now but also the future with implausible certitude.

So do we need a “god” to tell us what is right and wrong? Can’t we decide that for ourselves now? Haven’t we evolved so much, and our thinking much more open minded than it was centuries ago, that rational thinking can’t replace religion?

Many people approach “god” in times of need. Again this goes in standing with the conviction that things beyond our control are most probably caused by a supernatural force. This causes them to directly believe that a solution is possible through these divine beings when actually there isn’t. It causes them to reach for these mystic solutions before even thinking out a logical and rational one.

People say religion gives them inner peace because they believe a “god” is looking after them and by regular prayer and rituals, they would be pleasing this god and hence it’ll make their lives better. But aren’t they in fact living a lie. Believing in such things gives them a false sense of hope and security which can be at times dangerous.

There is a story (I can’t prove its validity), about a town which when being raided by bandits, their chief told the townspeople to stamp on the artifacts believed to be holy by them. Most of them did so because the chief threatened to kill them if they didn’t. But one young girl opposed the chief saying she’d rather die than spoil these artifacts, and she was killed. Many hail this as one of the greatest expressions of faith. They believe since she died for the cause of her creator, she goes to a “better place”.

Many believers pray also for this reason stating that in order to be in heaven, they have to pray daily and have faith in god. This blind faith in a life after death, again explained in so much certitude and accuracy by religion causes people to panic as to what to do so as to getting a place in “paradise”. Their only answer is through the religious people who prescribe rituals and prayers as the solution.

Just briefly think about what religion is causing us to do; it is terrifying people about something in the future which may or may not (the latter being more probable) happen.

One of the solutions to these lunacies is a logical and rational thinking. Religion began as an answer to questions that baffled us and as it went along took control over our lives; it is just a human invention which went out of control, and ended up taking over our lives.