This is going to be a bit complex for me to provide with any kind of string to it, this may well end up being as before, a hectic collection of statements that arrive at my hands as I sit and write, if it had form as well as function I maybe wouldn’t have to work for a living,” god forbid”

 

And there, right there is the subject of this latest in my outpourings of hand/keyboard coordination attempts at explaining what it is that whirls and clicks with sometimes breath-taking speed behind my eyes.

GOD

 

The worlds most revered, hated, worshiped and copied imaginary friend on earth and beyond into the heavens and stars.  To start with I would like to explain something. I am not an atheist or a Christian or of any religious denomination or persuasion whatsoever. I do favour the Buddhist way of living as in respect, mutual understanding and treating others how I’d like to be treated. Giving room to any other living thing and compassion and for the most part, calm.

 

My memory of religion was sitting in a classroom as a small child and being taught how amazing GOD was, is and always will be. It was at this point that my mind was completely blown away by the “fact” that GOD MADE EVERYTHING, Now, I ask you to hold this statement in your mind as we go along and please bear in mind that the clues are in the words, no ambiguity here, HE MADE EVERYTHING. And yes, very early on it was pointed out to a member of the class that it was/is in fact a “he”

 

“take a breath stay with me on this”

We had what was then known as R/E twice a week and were lectured at by a woman with a slight frame and headgear that covered her head and hair leaving a dirty white band of material to frame her face, complete with hairy complexion and the biggest granny-wart on her lower left jaw line that you ever saw. And no, I kid you not. She always smelled of mints, Polo mints to be exact mingled with a smell I couldn’t quite label. Which I later in life realised was alcohol.

Strutting around the room in her light brown shoes that indoor bowls players wear and legs the colour of tanned leather hanging out from a crumpled shiny arsed blue skirt that was half way down her calves. I remember so much about this woman as I do of all my teachers but I do not remember this woman’s name. and I’m sure it wasn’t sister Mary.

Anyway, back to the old nameless one as we were.

Q1- why does god not have a name?

He “is” a god that’s not he’s name, all gods have names Thor, Jupiter, Zeus, Juno, Neptune, Poseidon, Hera the list goes on and on, but my point is they all have names as well as being “gods”

 

But the god of Christianity after he was the god of the Jews (changed team’s half way through)

Would appear to want to remain nameless.

Is he so ashamed at creating the devil that he then realised he couldn’t have an earth name? yes, the devil, he “created EVERYTHING” remember! no ambiguity here and in the bible the word everything means everything.

If I were to write all my issues with religion it would make Tolstoy’s war and peace look like a short episode of Pingu. However, we don’t have that long and infinite life hasn’t yet been developed. (no, it hasn’t)

Q2-if money is the root of all evil, then why pass round the collection bowl at the end of service?

Q3- why can we not hold funeral services for the “and I hate this term” non-believers as if being a non-believer is such an awful crime.

Look at this and tell me I’m wrong. start with human 1 and human 2

 

 

Human 1, born healthy lives well, marries and has children, children grow and human 1 becomes old and sadly dies after raising two marvellous children. Human 1 never had the children christened as human 1 wanted them to grow and have an informed choice over what “if any” religion they wanted to follow in later life. Human 1 had a great social life, a great job, a Suzuki sv1000 and roller skates. Human 1 never attended church but never scoffed at those who did.

At no point did human 1 feel the need to involve god in its life from an early age to the day human 1 took its last breath. Human 1 didn’t need or want god at all. It served human 1 in no way shape or form to have any belief system in place other than for human 1 to love its spouse and children and work hard to make them happy.

 

Human 2, born healthy lives well, attends church regularly, meets a like-minded person and they get married with a big church service. Human 2 becomes old and sadly dies after raising two marvellous children who were christened and attended Sunday school and became themselves avid churchgoers. Human 2 sat in judgement over human 1 and his clan for not believing. Human 2 couldn’t afford a Suzuki sv1000 or roller skates because he was filling the vicar’s collection bowl each Sunday with his hard-earned cold hard cash. In fact, human2 even forgave the vicar once it came to light that the vicar had been helping himself to human 2’s little boy.  Human 2 needed god throughout his life and had a church service at his funeral and was buried in accordance with his religion. Human 2 worked just as hard to provide for its family and made them happy also.

 

It made not a jot of difference to the lives of these people to have an imaginary friend or not. God made no difference. All that belief and it makes no difference, however!

He makes cancer in children and diseases that eat a child’s eyes from the inside out. He lets children sit in cancer wards as surgeons and nurses helplessly struggle to save their fragile lives. He takes the young and old alike, he is indiscriminate in his destruction of useful life and never helps the poor but has his name above the door of all the major law, legal and financial institutions of the world, (IN GOD WE TRUST) He is everywhere all the time unless there happens to be a catastrophe and then it’s a case of “well he can’t be everywhere at once can he”

 

We have the courts of the land arresting preachers of Islam on the streets of England and yet Jehovah witnesses can come to your front door and tell you who you should believe in, well until you drop your joggers and helicopter them and ask if they want to love thy neighbour then they run off “why do they run away screaming? Anyway!

They even have a regular stall outside the express shop I use of a morning and do their level best to thrust leaflets into the hands of commuters as they scurry to the station, all blurry eyed and still half asleep people still manage a polite “not thanks” and carry on so they can just make their train rather than leave 5 minutes early and stand and listen to a reading from the watchtower.  And that’s all legal and above-board. You attend court for say “speeding” just saying! and you must swear on the bible. Or affirm which I believe is an alternative giving of an oath.

 

Our freedom of choice is so far removed from us that we hardly seem to take stock of its frightening reality. I remember as an adolescent I wanted to be removed from the laws of the land as I didn’t believe in god and therefore didn’t want to be controlled by the framework of the ten commandments which are our guides in legal and l moral matters. Unless you’re a judge a priest or senior politician.

 

Gays weren’t and still aren’t acknowledged in the church and yet how many priests have been dismissed from the church for systematically battering the backsides of boys since the Sisteen chapel stank of fresh paint. The priests have all the kids knelt before them to receive the blood of Christ it’s almost a paedo-sushi bar!

 

Institutions of god pay no taxes and yet if google or a coffee retailer don’t pay taxes it’s a headline news item. And I wouldn’t mind betting that institutions of god make an awful amount of money that should be taxed the same as any money-making organisation.

 

The best advert for religion and what it does for and to a society is to look at the Icelandic model of religious society it is as follows:

 

It has no army and will not engage or host religion as a given to a way of life

They jailed their corrupt bankers

The economy is booming

Violent crime is rare and it has or, had one of the lowest crime rates on the planet.

ICELANDICS ARE 92% ATHIEST

 

So where is all that evil and depravity. Where is the burning in hell happening?  It’s starting to unravel as an influx of migrants of a certain faith are raping Icelandic women and girls at a rate that the police cannot keep up with.

 

This of course is the subject of another blog and not here but it needed inclusion for those who have seen in the media what is going on in Iceland.

 

I have no time for an imaginary friend in my life who is supposed to be the all seeing all knowing prophet to save us all. Why do I need saving? the amount of preservatives in the food I eat means I’m damn nigh immortal!

Have a good weekend folks and may your gods if you have any be with you.

 

Fandango