Obviously that's not all

I never nursed the intent of writing a piece that would make you think and go - oh yeah today is the first day of me becoming a better human. No that is not this is about.

Those questions I left you earlier to ponder, they should just do that and I want you to read further as you ponder that.

Do you ever think, how much we need each other as people, yet how much we despise each others existence. Wait, here is a pledge. I am not going to pretend like I know psychology or anthropology or sociology or politics so you are not going to find none of that here except yeah occasionally, you might go like - hey this is that theory, this is that thing this guy was saying. To which I do not have a claim to be like this guaranteed original thinker. After all, there are no guaranteed original thinkers. Thinking comes after perceiving or experiencing. It’s not complex like ‘did chicken or egg come first?’. There is no original thought. It’s always influenced.

We could however make an entertaining argument that boredom creates everything, thoughts, need for experiences, the sense of self even. If we were not going to be bored ever, would we do anything at all, would we need to?

This book comes with a promise of making claims that will be immediately called out into such tasty words as preposterous, baseless, ridiculous, opinionated and atrocious. So it should be fun. I think this book will be as provocative as it could be boring.

So, you see, to me, Jesus Christ, his message or Christianity’s message seems deeply misunderstood. I see such thought provoking questions (and satisfactory answers) from very learned people about suffering and its importance to humanity for example. But like many of you, my human need to just rebel and disagree and think differently is not doing me any favors. I have told this to a very Christian friend of mine bluntly and he did not mind so I will do it again.

I am thinking God or Gods or son of God if I have to keep it in the context of Christianity - God always saw humanity as probably the most pitiful, laughable and entertaining creations of all. I would think God is looking at us the same way we might look at the monkey - minus the existential introspection I was suggesting of course. I am saying God looks at us and goes the same way we look at dogs or cats and the funny shit that they do. But for dogs and cats, it’s not funny shit - is it? It’s just what they do.

Mass murder, rape, destruction, hurt, wars and I can only imagine God, going like - “OMG, this is hilarious how fucked up these creatures are. I can’t wait to see them all go bat shit crazy and cause complete destruction of their race.”

That was not just anthropomorphizing God, I even assumed God goes ‘OMG’. Like it’s not enough that God speaks English or any human language for that matter, he even uses slang and text lingo, so he probably even gets texting, right?

Whether this is funny or not, I think only a God that feels pitiful about human race can only be a God who is ever forgiving. Why am I capitalizing G in God? Fear of God or is it like the proper way to do it?

How else would someone or something be able to forgive the things we do to each other in the name of our need to exist? If anthropomorphism is how I must look at God, which is what every religion asks of us to do, then one idea that I shamelessly and proudly share to be heard, reviewed, criticized or for entertainment is that God has to be above us in all ways and the very moment we allude to anthropomorphism to explain God’s ways, we fail so miserably at it. Like the dog going woof woof (or bow bow, if that’s your thing - I do not want to disrespect your stand about dog barking, don’t cancel me); so woof woof must be our dog saying ‘that squirrel has rabies’ or that ‘all squirrels are aliens’.

But our response to dog is - ‘you just ate an hour ago baby, you cannot eat now.’ Or ‘did you poop on the carpet again?’. Do you see where I am going with this. God is not limited in the ways he can understand and perceive what we go through. He sees much more, senses or experiences much more. Like our life and our sentience is so insignificant to him. He takes care of only the things we cannot control in any way or form and that is a great way to explain miracles. Try that in your next conversation about God.

So I also did think about other religions and I think I came up with somewhat similar observations. Like Hinduism for eg, it says we are at something called ‘Kaliyuga’, when Kalki, the word means, destroyer of filth and he is just going to wipe the race because god damn, we are not getting better for our own sake, despite how many chances we get, how much we think we are awakened.

Strangely enough I think Budha is just saying, just bloody give up trying to help the human race and just dissolve into nature somehow because there is no escape, there is no end to anything. We are just all beings that are awaiting destruction and everything we do before that is monkey and the rock.

Birth is never guaranteed, creation is never a certainty but destruction always is and death is a surety to anything.

Well then, there are other religions and from what very little I know and little is what I know which is obvious from me just speaking away my mind, they all almost say the same thing - that God says - Forgive, try to coexist, be kind, because I could just get sick of it all one day, be so fucking done with all of you that I just might wipe away your race, just like that.

That brings me to the subject of fear of God. Such scrutiny has come to light over people admitting fear of God. One of my favorite characters in fiction is Rustin Cohle from True Detective, Season 1, written and created by Nic Pizzolatto. Here is a famous quote of his, that not enough atheists have used famously,

"If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of s***. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day? What does that say about your reality?"

Wow, right? Makes sense. Divine reward or fear of rotting in hell, we humans sure as hell need plenty motivation to get anything done. So if shit is getting done and I mean good shit which I believe is the majority result of people having the fear of God, then why is it the bone the atheist in us wants to pick. Choose something else. Like next time you are so bored, please ask the believer about anthropomorphism instead of insulting their intellect just because they believe in a being that is not available for all sentient beings alike. In fact the word anthropomorphism will give you some credibility too, see how many times I used it.

Besides, if the most annoying part of religion is the fact that it tries to convert people into believing, the most annoying part of atheists is how they try so hard to convert people to not believing. I mean, what the fuck is going on.