Your God Is The Only True God

Dear Religious Believer,

When you are born you have no religion or political affiliation. You are an apolitical polyatheist, whether you like it or not. That is your objective default state. Similarly, you don’t follow a football team and you don’t have a favourite tv show.

Whatever you believe today is the result of the cumulative knowledge your environment has imprinted onto you. Anything, from your deepest desire to your most superficial weakness, is the result of random information generated from earlier sets of random information.

At a young age, you are modeled after the beliefs and actions of your parents. They have themselves undergone the same process. Children believe their parents because they have no other choice. Monkey see, monkey do. Repeat. You also had no other choice.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

Your parents believe in a vengeful but also all benevolent Elephant God with eight arms? You will believe that story as true. Your parents believe in virgin sacrifices or resurrections? You will believe it as well. Everything becomes part of your reality. What is real is only but the sum of opinions you get about the world. You rarely test the validity of most things around you, including your very dear religious books. You most likely never carefully study them. Like most of us you are likely a cocktail of naive and lazy when it comes to your beliefs.

 

You believe in something because other people believe in something similar. After all, how can ~90% of the inhabitants of this planet be wrong? Yet, not a single one believes in the same version of God, whether they are Christian, Muslim, Hindu or anything else in between.

You are encouraged to believe blindly and that everything is going to be ok. You are assured that if you follow a set of rules your will live forever in a very nice place you can’t really explain or even come to imagine. You believe that because you are afraid of death. You are afraid of being gone forever. You cannot accept that your biological body, the set of carbon molecules that make the real you is all there is. You believe in belief because your environment shaped you this way.

Every single person is their own unique heresy because we are all the result of different sets of information acquired under different circumstances. You are you own randomly generated code much like the very key you own to login to this website.

Your belief in God is unique. Nobody else believes in your specific version. You realised this soon enough after you elaborated details about your religion. The people whom you share the same religion with believe in the same general vague idea— but not the same tenants. You are your own heresy much like everybody else.

Your spiritual leader believes that the true God is the a, b, c, d, e, f, v, m, p, k, w, e, r pieces of information. Your father believes that the true God is the a, v, m, p, k, w, e, r pieces of information. You believe that God is a, v, k, b, m, and r pieces of information. According to you your father believes archaic, old traditions that are absurd. He is an old heretic. But you... you are a modern heretic! You know more about the world and you have constructed your version of the God much better; or so you think.
 

Your belief in God is much like an all you can eat buffet. You have a vast majority of choices and you pick and choose based on your subjective set of morality which one is best. You have a religious friend thinking that it is moral to have many wives. Another one thinks genital mutilation is ok. If you belonged to a certain monotheistic belief 2000 years ago based on the writing of a “holy book”, you would believe that is ok to sell women to slavery after a war. The existence of so many religions is evidence that ethics are subjective and directly depend on time, environment and culture.

You believe that your God created everything we see around us. After all, how all these can be so perfect?! You can’t explain it therefore the creation demands a designer. This is a naive thought since there are no other environments to compare this "intelligent design". In much the same way, a smudge on a white wall is the best piece of art that wall has ever experienced.

Have you ever asked yourself who designed the designer? If your answer is "Nobody" then you shouldn't be making the design argument. You see, an answer to a question that raises the same question (and in a much more complicated way) is not really an answer. You are avoiding the question. If your God has always existed then skip the God question entirely and just assume everything has always existed. We do not have any evidence that points to the contrary.

You can’t accept that everything around you weren’t created for you. You can’t accept that you are just a random conglomerate because you value your own existence too much. You believe you have superior intellect compared to a bird, or a dog or... a water paddle. Or do you?

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for" ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

If your version of God is the architect of this universe then you must consider that he is not such a good architect. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence and unfortunately there is not even a single one that this universe is intentionally designed by your true God. This rock was as "intelligently" shaped by nature as much as you are.
 

99.99999999% of the entire universe is a desolate dark place inhospitable to any form of life. Even here on Earth life is not easy to flourish. This planet is called earth but 75% of it is filled with saltwater—something that humans cannot even survive upon or under.

Imagine an architect building a house that is 75% toxic, dangerous and a threat to your own life. When you ask him for explanations he responds: “Don’t question my wisdom. You can survive if you try hard enough”. If your God created this planet and the rest of the universe with an “intelligent purpose" in mind—just to make us part of an elaborate survival scheme on a suspended rock in space; then you have to accept that your true God is a masochist, a bad architect or both.
 

Take a look at your body. From a design perspective is an abomination. Would you create wisdom teeth that cause the entire jawline to be misaligned? Would you create knees and spines that wear and tear so easy? Would you design a special worm that gets into the eyeballs of people and kills them? s them? At last, would you put a toilet inside a recreation area?

There are at least 16,000 religions on this planet. You believe in most likelihood to either Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism. You believe most likely in one of these religions because they are the ones that made it through the centuries after absorbing smaller ones. They are the most violent. Survival of the fittest works in nature much like it does with ideas.

History is written and promoted by the winners. If you are a Christian you most likely owe your belief to the bloodthirsty Emperor Constantine that made Christianity an official religion in order to march the believers in a war for his own selfish purposes. All other religions follow a similar story. Your religion prevailed because it violently eradicated all others.

Your religion preaches about love, helping people in need and dear family values. Your religion is about peace. Your religious book says that all other religions are false or carry “false prophets”. Your religion is true because you were randomly born at a random geographical area on this planet instead of another. This is like saying that your newborn child is the most beautiful because it is your own.

Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, some men who wanted to manipulate the masses wrote these stories? Have you ever thought that some people with political and spiritual power, in an era where reading and writing was a privilege of the few, just took advantage of feeble minds that had fear for the unknown?
 

Have you even considered your religious stories with an objective eye? For example, imagine if your girlfriend approached you one day and told you, "Look ...honey, I know it sounds weird ..but ...I am pregnant even if we didn't have sex yet. You see, last month…. God...hmmm... came into my sleep!.... and we did it…. with a... lily flower! I am having his son!” Imagine yourself believing her along with thousands others from your town. Did your girlfriend cheat on you or did she get divinely fucked?

Let’s say you visit a foreign country. You pick an old local book to kill some time in the loo. You read about an event resembling a zombie apocalypse. Would you immediately say “Darn, I have seen the light!”? Or you would at least investigate? They only reason you believe the nonsense of your religion is because you were brainwashed into it by our own culture.
 

Most of the “amazing things” you see described in religious books such as visions, resurrections, people getting demonised, angels, dragons and all that cool stuff are actually stories, fables—much like the ones played out for you through Hollywood. They didn’t have cable tv or video games back then. People still had imagination and they had to use it. Most of the times they tried to pass ethical messages through their stories. Some stories ended up being religion since they were carried from mouth to mouth like a broken telephone game. I am sure though, your God is the exception to the rule.

Your holy book is proof for the existence of your God as much as Harry Potter is proof for magic. Fans and followers don’t make something true. Quite the contrary. Truth is rarely democratic.

Have you ever tried to make the objective question when it comes to your God? “Is there a God?” is not the right kind question. In much the same way “Is there chair?” is also erroneous. You have to define which chair you are talking about. Where is that chair? Describe the context of that chair. Give parametres and specific values. When you ask yourself about God you have to be equally specific. For example: Do you believe in the existence of a benevolent God that allows 16000 children to die every day from hunger and thousands others from diseases that he created?

You believe that there must be a plan. A plan that your human mind cannot understand. But really, if you could not understand that super intelligent plan of your true God, how come you would understand his existence? If you are to make assertions you have to be intellectually honest.

You live in a universe with trillions of galaxies containing billions of planets each. Stars explode, galaxies collide, nebulas light years across annihilate everything in their path. It is extremely naive to assert that your God saves from disorder when his design is a glorification of disorder. The concept of your sense of order or disorder is subjective and demands a certain perspective. After all, what is order for the spider is disorder for the fly.
 

You can take a step back and make the correct questions about “God”. A dude, all perfect, all awesome, bored, jailing Sims-like individuals into a matrix, an illusion. A game, with a specific algorithm we call “natural laws”. If this is true then don’t be surprised if God is a spoiled teenager from another dimension in his room having fun. He tortures us with diseases, catastrophes, illusions, pain. A sadist testing his subjects.

If you succumb to his game then you will be placed in a special part of the program in a state of trance in order to repeat paradise-like illusions. Forever. I can come up with hundreds of these likely scenarios but none of them will be necessarily true.

Have you really thought about living forever? Have you ever imagined eating just pizza for a year? How about eating just pizza for 10 years? Eternity is perhaps the most gruesome torture one can imagine—if they are really honest with themselves.
 

A book. Your evidence is a single book that comes from an era with no copyright laws. Your version of God is an old version of a randomly edited wikipedia article.

Your an atheist to at least one God. You believe in your God but you reject all the others.

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