How many variations of "I can't, personally, conceive how life could have arisen spontaneously, therefore the only explanation is that God had to do it" have to continuously keep manifesting over the course of life, and continue to ignore/deny the baggage of information that actually explains this question? At what point does mankind, as a whole, grow the hell up out of this GodDaddy mentality?
It will not happen during this evolutionary stage of Homo Sapiens.
The Sky Daddies delusion is the product of a hyperactive child-like imagination and wishful thinking and child-like fear of the unknown and child-like need for love and support and comforting and child-like wish for vengeance and "justice" and protection against the meanies.
The real core of the problem is that people are willing to delude themselves and let others dupe them because mentally they are frightened pathetic wretched children. They are trembling lumps of insignificant debris floating on the waves of space-time trying to construe by any self-delusion a significance for their fleeting moment of existence punctuated by terror, and inexorable calamities.
Impotent to exact justice or to stem the currents and waves of time, they raise their arms up like children begging in supplication to an imagined sky daddy to lift them up and give them a comforting hug and to beat up the neighboring children.
The major tragedy of course is that this infantile psychological condition was and is viciously and cynically and predatorily exploited by clever brigands and wily poltroons to huckster and bamboozle the quivering shivering sheep. Much like all the other shams, scams and hoaxes discovered or invented by numerous hoodwinkers and mountebanks throughout the ages and are still being utilized even today despite all available knowledge.
It is a humongous shame upon humanity that still even in the 21st century people are still willing to fool themselves with sky daddies.
But what is a bigger shame is that people who claim to be not deluded by any sky daddies are willing to defend the sky daddy delusions incessantly and indefatigably and belligerently and acerbically and to label people who demonstrate the preposterousness of it as insane and demented and psychologically damaged ex-altar boys who have a "thing" that prevents them from thinking rationally about the usefulness of the sky daddies they claim not to believe in.
In a Midrash there is a story about Abraham destroying some of the Idols his Father worshiped and then made it appear as if one of the unharmed idols did it. When the people questioned him while accusing him...he said that if they don't believe that the idols were able to do it or defend themselves then why do they worship them?
In the OT (1 Kings 18:22-40) there is a story about Elijah challenging the priests of Baal to a show of force between YHWH and BAAL.... obviously YHWH wins and Elijah (not YHWH for a change) massacres all 450 prophets of Baal and that is supposed to prove that Baal is not real.
I propose a similar challenge between all the religions of the world.
Let’s have the United Nations organize a WORLD WIDE invitation to the representatives of ALL the religions that care to participate… any that don’t are acknowledging defeat.
The representative are then allowed a month to pray and worship in the manner they want as prescribed in their scriptures/traditions and so forth.
After the month is out and they have expended all efforts to supplicate or arouse their gods to action they are to ask their respective gods to do the following.
On an appointed date chosen to have a good clear weather and to have a full moon at night… during the day and during the night local time where the UN building is (i.e. New York).
Whatever god is able to perform… if there are multiple gods then they have to either fight it out and the winner ALONE gets to perform… or … They agree to TIME SHARE and decide who gets to go first and then second etc….. or they can elect one of them to do the writing for all of them.
During the day ALL DAY … Must BLINK THE SUN using MORSE CODE … In ENGLISH… to spell out the name of the religion s/he/it endorses… if there are multiple gods that are participating then they have to coordinate and time share the sun so as to Morse code all their respective religions in succession… or they can fight each other and the winner alone does it.
During the night ALL NIGHT … Must BLINK THE MOON using MORSE CODE … In ENGLISH… to spell out the name of the religion s/he/it endorses… if there are multiple gods that are participating then they have to coordinate and time share the moon so as to Morse code their respective religions in succession… or they can fight each other and the winner alone does it.
ANY and ALL religions whose names are not listed then must concede that their gods are either non-existent or have just lost the competition and thus are lesser god.
If nothing happens then there are no gods or they do not care.
In any case… this will be televised and transmitted all around the world. All news agencies and the religious representatives sent to the UN can have their own satellite feed to wherever they want to transmit.
I think that any other details can be worked out in a preceding UN Conference.
Why doesn’t the world do something like this? We have the technology now to make this visible to ALL humans around the world… every human can see it and verify for himself or herself.
We also should have this event repeat every 25 years just in case this god dies or is subsequently defeated in a later god competition… if they would care to televise the fighting on a reality show called
GODLY SURVIVOR that would be nice.
