God's Delusion: Questioning Religious Beliefs

God’s Delusion

The Whipertiewoo, an omnipresent purple fuzz ball with five legs and one eye, a creature I just created. Due to me not having any proof of its existence- I shall write a book. This book shall be the word of the Whipertiewoo and therefore prove its existence…Wait, What? You don’t believe in it…but that is exactly how ‘god’ came into existence.

I have always lived my life without a belief in ‘god’ or an ‘afterlife’. So why is it that so many are willing to just rollover and accept that god exists, especially when seventy-five percent of all British scientists know that there is no god? These scientists include the greatest minds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, so why do we believe a book which is thousands of years old, written by the J.K. Rowling of that time and has resulted in the persecution of thousands? Just because there is a book about it, that doesn’t mean it exists. If, for example, I presented to you a book about the Hulk, would that mean that the Hulk exists? No it would not, we only believe in this book and fictitious being, because… well, because Mum and Dad told us to.

So, why do our loved ones place upon this idea, to quote Stephen Fry, of “a capricious, closed-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?” Is it simply because death will, eventually, fall upon our doorstep and they feel it necessary to give us false hope that we may be reunited with our loved ones on a special cloud one day, after death? A team of psychologists in the Netherlands looked into this recently. They induced a dream state in four hundred subjects and convinced them that they had died. Next they asked the subjects to describe their setting and only twenty-five percent of thos...

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...creators? And who made their creators? Unfortunately these questions are infinite and unanswerable. However, there is a very easy way to establish an answer to these questions because no one made god because god doesn’t exist.

So, to conclude we’ve created make-believe monsters that hurt you if you have done something unscrupulous and will do nothing to you if you live your life according to a fictitious book filled with dreadful stories about genocide, murder, adultery, incest, deceit, greed, arrogance, megalomania, sexual perversion and all sorts of despicable behaviour. There are creatures that live to burrow into children’s eyes and get satisfaction from blinding them. It seems that belief in god will do to you what the creatures do to the children; it makes you blind to the truth. Then again, the Whipertiewoo and I have, thankfully, allowed you to see…the truth.