Who and Where is God?

For the souls immersed in superstitious, medieval folklore, the belief in a vindictive, possessive, "Higher Power" comes straight from the Bible. Therefore, not only will you be offended with the title of this article but the contents won't sit too well either. 

The 'Believers' first impression would be something along the lines of, "how dare you question God's existence!"

Let me start off by quoting from three former, erudite earth travelers and their thoughts on "Divine Guidance" or the possibility of an "omnipotent (unlimited power, able to do anything), omnipresent (present everywhere at the same time), and omniscient (all-knowing) entity.

1. Bertrand Russell - British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist.
2. Albert Einstein - German-born theoretical physicist, and arguably the smartest man to ever live.
3. Plato - Student of Socrates, Athenian philosopher who lived in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE (Before the Common Era).

Russell stated, "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence."

Einstein stated, "I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation."

Regarding humankind's immortality, Plato suggested, "we know certain things that we cannot possibly have learned in this life and we must therefore be remembering things that we knew previously."

The World Birth and Death Rate Statistics

Birth and Death Rate:

• 131.4 million births per year and 55.3 million people die each year.
• 360,000 births per day and 151,600 people die each day.
• 15,000 births each hour and 6,316 people die each hour.
• 250 births per minute and 105 deaths per minute.
• 4 births each second of every day and 2 deaths per second.

The average life expectancy at birth is approximately 67 years.

From the stats above, it's accurate to say that people are born and people die, on a daily basis across the globe, every two seconds.

Tragic Historical Events

• Slave Trade: 15th-19th century; Death toll, over 60 million.
• World War I: 1914-1918; Death toll, 16 million.
• World War II: 1939-1945; Death toll, 50 to 85 million
• Holocaust: 1933-1945; Death toll, over 6 million.
• Hiroshima, Japan: 08/06/1945; Death toll, over 150,000.
• Vietnam War: 1955-1975; Death toll, 3 million.
• Rwandan Genocide: 1994; Death toll, 500,000 to 1 million.
• 9/11 Attacks: 09/11/2001; Death toll, over 3000.

One can surmise that the majority of the 60 million slaves cried out to some deity for help. The 6 million plus Jews that perished under Hitler's "Final Solution," I'm sure, prayed incessantly for relief. The hapless victims trapped in the twin towers in New York, certainly pleaded with God to come to the rescue. 

So who and where is God?

The deity that is depicted in the Christian holy book and the Qur'an simply does not exist, and here's why. 

The Bible clearly states that this Supreme Being knows everything, sees everything, and 'He' created humanity. There's no mention of who or what created the other thinking species that exist in the sextillions of galaxies, many of which are twice the size of our Milky Way galaxy. If you think this tiny, "pale blue dot" called Earth is the only planet that harbors intelligent beings, you're sadly mistaken.

Here's another tidbit that goes unnoticed in Sunday school. Straight from the King James Bible, Isaiah 45:7, "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." 

There's really not too many ways to interpret this scripture as it clearly ends with, "I the Lord do all these things." The good, the bad, the ugly, the unjust, the violence, "I the Lord created it all." What does this say about this apocryphal lord and ruler of mankind?

Christian and Bible apologist are extremely crafty at cherry picking the scriptures that suit their interest. They adroitly manipulate and slant the contents of their manuscript for the sole purpose of promoting the Christian faith and the protagonist of this highly plagiarized Roman story. 

Study pre-Christian literature and you will clearly see that stories such as Noah's Ark was taken directly from the "Epic of Gilgamesh," one of the earliest surviving works of literature, written thousands of years before the 950-year-old Noah. Really? 950 years? 

The story of the infant Moses being set adrift in a basket, was lifted from "Sargon of Akkad," recorded 2000-3000 years earlier than the biblical adaptation. The legend of Moses as a Hebrew lawgiver, was duplicated from the Mediterranean to India. Depending on the location, there was ‘Manou’, the Indian legislator; ‘Mises’, from Syrian folklore, was pulled out of a basket floating in a river. Mises also had tablets of stone upon which laws were written, and a rod with which he performed miracles, including parting waters and leading his army across the sea.

Christian apologist will often ask, "where are your sources?" Many, but not all of those sources went up in flames when the Library of Alexandria, in Egypt was destroyed, long before the Jesus, Moses, and Noah characters were invented. 

Over 700,000 documents related to Egyptian culture, faith, beliefs, education, and religion, were destroyed. Adding tremendous insult to colossal injury, neoplatonist philosopher, religious thinker, and teacher, Hypatia of Alexandria, considered the greatest living mathematician and astronomer of her time, was brutally murdered by a Christian mob. After this mass destruction of property and life, Christian authors and historians, hijacked the identity of Egyptian mythical characters. They wrote about the same stories, only the names and dates were changed.

The Library of Alexandria has become a symbol of "knowledge and culture destroyed."

The only source that Christian apologist have is the Bible, a book that's at least 75% plagiarized and has been edited thousands of times from its original publication. That's your source, a book that 'Believers' say, comes straight from God, but is replete with errors, inaccuracies, and a multitude of contradictions and outlandish fairy tales.

References:

• Hypatia of Alexandria
• Knowledge and Culture Destroyed
• List of Wars by Death Toll