What Has God Done For Mankind
By - Casper Rigsby
The Legacy of the Imagined Benefactor
All religion claims that their god embodies "omni" qualities, such as
omnipotence and omnipresence and omniscience. So we should see God
doing all sorts of things, shouldn’t we? For those who've bought into the
delusion, they THINK that they DO see "God's hand" in everything. Oh what
a truly confused lot indeed.
The primitive people who first thought up religion saw "God's hand" in
everything, too. From volcanic eruptions to lightning strikes, it was all the
work of "God" or "the gods" who later dwindled down for most to a single
deity. They offered blood and flesh "sacrifices" of beasts and humans alike to
appease these gods in the hopes of winning their favor and to stop nature
from following its own course. The foolishness of this is something that most
of us agree upon now as we are able to look back on our past. But some
stubbornly hold to such notions and claim their god has sent destruction by
natural disaster to their religious enemies. This is the legacy of death that
they have thrust upon their imaginary benefactor. Because of this, when we
ask what God has done for mankind, we can answer: "He has brought death
and hatred."
If "God is Love", then Ice Cream is a Meteor
The phrase "God is love" is a very popular one. It's on t-shirts and bumper
stickers and even up on billboards, but that doesn't make it true in the least.
In fact, there are few statements that are LESS TRUE. If we are willing to
look critically at the world around us, it is painfully obvious that IF a "god"
exists at all, that god either hates us or flat out doesn't give two shits about
us. The other alternative is that no god exists at all and the world is a shitty
place because WE LET IT BE. And that, my friends, is a hard notion for the
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