The Unbelievable

Most people upon discovering I'm atheist often exclaim "you don't believe in anything?" Of course I do have beliefs; I believe there is evil, love, music, loyalty, reciprocity, knowledge. It's not that as an atheist, one has a blank, empty mind. I'm always willing to listen to reasonable explanation that necessitates the existence of grand uncaused Cause whether matter or not. The belief system of some religions; (i will mention those i'm familiar with) Christianity and Islam, is to a point that goes beyond belief towards fantasy. Their beliefs on the sources and contents of their Holy Books is surprising, like the Quran is believed to delivered by an angel of God, which is a strange and extraordinary demonstration for an extraordinary book contains all the fundamental truths of existence. To an outsider, such contention is impossible to accept.

Unfortunately, their entire idea of God is founded in the extraordinary testimonies of ancient writers whose identity or message is ‘believed’ to be without question or validation. The religious leaders also include their testimonies and celebrate the phenomenon of miracle. A famous pastor once spoke of his one of miraculous experience whereby he drove a car with fuel tank filled with water for over 400km! Surprisingly, he has a personal plane which hasn’t filled yet with water. How am I supposed to believe that? Is that reasonable?

Huge portions of the Bible is devoted to such unbelievable stories,

That a donkey spoke in human language,

That a man with simple words parted a sea

That a man can offer himself as a ritualistic sacrifice for salvation,  does sacrificing a goat make me a better person?

That a man not just rose he up from the dead, but an ENTIRE cemetery?!

That a man can ascend into the sky without any physical support?

On this pile of the unbelievable sits God, whose nature, identity is above our natural universe, above our scrutiny. It could have as well been an error passed the generations, through the influence of culture and habit. At the end, God is said to be the sum total of the unbelievable, thus there is more justification in disbelieving than believing!

Nevertheless my position on religion is first and foremost my opinion which I earnestly try to lend it a rational complexion, which I’m entitled to. Also I must for my good, keep my sanity.

The Character of Rhology's God

I’m always interested in the mind of religious people, what they conceive as thoughts and perceive reality. On top this hierarchy of divinity stands God, as the ultimate reality and authority. However, the term God has drawn numerous meanings and definitions, which have different reasons for existing. The deist’s God, the Muslim’s God and the Mormon’s God are identifiably different from one another, which makes definition more necessary. My particular focus will be the Christian God that too will be difficult to define as the thousands of denominations under Christianity have found on different ideas and images of God. However Rhology has provided an impressive list of attributes which God possesses (his God).

Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresent, Living, Omnibenevolence, Incomprehensible, Almighty, Infinite.. just to mention a few. First, God is assumed to be a Being, therefore making the question of his existence relevant, he can not exist without substance or essence or else he is a void abstraction. His attributes must correspond with themselves to radiate a consistent coherent image.

God is said to be almighty and infinite, isn’t he bound first by his attributes? His powers and abilities cannot extend beyond what he has. He is confided by his nature and the limitations of it. Thus the term ‘AlMighty’ and ‘infinite’ is meaningless. By understanding the specific and particular characteristics of God, a picture of the limitations appear, casting light on the negatives of his character. For example, if he is absolutely good, then he can’t be bad.

In simple words, being omnipotent is to do anything and everything including the logical impossible. Also that one is a functioning being, capable of being part of a causal system. As far as the impossible goes, God can draw a square circle however that looks like, create something out of nothing, create a married bachelor, bring into existence meaningless; thus one can conclude that God if capable of the above, then he himself is logically impossible and meaningless.

The biggest argument for the necessity of God’s existence is the design the universe takes. For God as an omnipotent being to takes steps to carefully assemble the delicate universe with resulting complexity as a necessity and evidence for a hardworking designer, when a simple wish would have sufficed. Simply incoherent logic. An omnipotent being would not require a design, when he can transform chaos to act as order, or bend any means to whatever end,

God is living! Isn’t he just another life form! A dead matter or an abstract cannot hold inherent knowledge; both lack consciousness, awareness which is a prerequisite for being capable of having knowledge. A conscious being is necessarily life. Maybe, God is an example of life that is not threatened by nonexistence, however if he is omniscient, that puts predestination over the freewill doctrine. However that’s another topic for later. God is then a form of MATTER!

God is omnibenevolent that is he is all good. A creation is a mirror that reflects the creator, if God is all good, the universe will be all good with no space for evil. However, the natural disasters, genocides, wars, poverty, sufferings well indicate that our world is not at all good. Evil is the biggest problem that threatens Rhology’s God.

God is incomprehensible is the most  baffling attribute, that God is beyond understanding and capture of knowledge. In other words, he is unknowable! Where did the knowledge of the aforementioned attributes got from? An unknowable being will be unknown and not known to be unknownable! This is an outrageous contradiction. A deeper examination of  the character Rhology’s God reveals a void, a blank, nothing; best an aggregate of contradictions, inconsistencies and the illogical. The single supposed attribute betrays the fact that the prior attributes are unreal and not logically possible.

Rhology has this fascinating ‘worldview’ which gives him the licence to redefine reality, possibly accept voids, contradictions at least what other function can faith play?!