The Bible, God, Creation, Flawed Stock

SOME QUESTIONS

According to the Bible and most religious people, God created the world, the universe, whether it was10 thousand years ago or over 10 billion years ago. Okay, let’s take that as a fact. Although, I think more of us believe in the big band theory.  For whom did he create all this? For everyone in this world? For everyone in the universe, if there is anyone else out there? For the Jews? For the Christians? For the Muslims? For the Hindus, etc, etc, etc? Did He mean for there to be an Under-God for each religion? Did He also create these Gods? Did he mean for there to be one Bible? Or did he want for Man, as a collective, to make the Good Book into what Man wanted it to be; as it is now?

It seems to me, and according to Moses, our great one God only meant for the Bible to be for the Jews, his chosen people, who he led throughout the land to slaughter all who held His people in slavery, every man woman, child and baby. All, of course, except for the virgins that is, divide all their riches, their cows, their sheep, their slaves. Does this sound like a loving God? Why is the Old Testament even a part of the Bible? It’s filled with horror stories. It turns my stomach reading it. But then, I guess it’s no worse than what one finds in the news papers of today. I don’t read them anymore, nor do I watch that crap on The Tube.

This God depicted in the Bible made a big mistake when He created his first 2 beings. He made everything perfect  except the main characters. Was he tired from his work when it was time to do His greatest creation? He flawed them and then cursed them to suffer for His mistake. It’s just not logical for a god capable of creating a universe to start off with flawed stock. If one is setting up a farm to raise cattle or sheep, isn’t it logical to start off with the best stock available? And is the stock is not good, whose fault is it? You sure don’t go out in the herd and start kicking around the poor animals for not going or doing what you want them to do without any guidance. A good Sheppard must guide his flock.  

 And then, family members began killing each other. Does any of this sound logical? Again this is the Sheppard’s fault. One must teach his young bulls not to fight or trim their horns so they cannot hurt each other.

Just some food for thought. These are just a small part of what turned me against religion and the so called Good Book. Have a pleasant day.

IN THE BEGINNING, THE BIG BANG OR SPLASH

IN THE BEGINNING, THE BIG BANG OR SPLASH

In the beginning, was it a big band or a big splash? Maybe, there was nothing, at least nothing we, we being us here on this speck of dirt floating in what we call the universe, could, can and probably will never conceive. Maybe there was or is a colossal laboratory. In this laboratory there was, and maybe still is, someone or something preparing an experiment of some kind, to find out who knows what. You make up whatever you think it is. This is something we as a human race are good at. We can conceive of many things, but seldom, if ever, can we as a solidarity agree on any one thing. Good or bad, this is our nature.

He, she, it, they make ready a Petri dish filled with what we here on our speck call dark matter, then dropped in what is now us here in the middle of our universe on our microscopic glob in a nondescript galaxy, thus creating the ‘big splash’. Think of a drop of oil splattering onto the surface of water. That drop of oil is our universe expanding.  What represents billions of years to us is less than an eye blink to this lab tech who hasn’t had time to adjust his microscope yet.

Now, can you understand that to us the end of our universe is a long, long way off.

What we need to do is put aside our faithful fears and undying inspirations. We still have time to party down. Brush away the small stuff. Forget the inconsequential and focus on what matters. Do good things for others. Keep a smile on our face instead of a knitted brow. Lend a hand instead of a push. Nearly everyone has heard it, but very few practice it, i.e. DO UNTO OTHERS.

Maybe we are what this lab tech is searching for, maybe not. Maybe we are his experiment. Maybe there are other specks in this or other galaxies out there with more of us or something similar to us on them. Maybe they are more successful than we, more suited for what the lab tech is seeking. Maybe he will pluck us from his Petri dish and cultivate us into something that will do good things for his culture too. This is a lot of maybes. But, what if we keep going in the direction we are headed, i.e.  destroying ourselves and each other as well as our little crumb we call Earth before he can even find us? If we have come this far in one blink of an eye, imagine where we will be and what we might accomplish in several blinks.

Envision what it might be like if we all agreed on one god.

In time we may find the edge of our universe, look into the eye of the lab tech and pray that he saves us from ourselves. By then, it may already be too late.

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