Twelve Views of God, Explosions, Sparrows, Toys, Catsup, and a Fairy Tale

(1.) A formula used to calculate the incidence of advanced technological civilizations in the Universe gives an answer of between 1,000 and one billion. Probability simply indicates that we humans are not alone.

(2.) The same questions still apply: We look about us at the complex web of the universe and wonder, ‘How did all of this come about? A common answer: “God” must have created it.’

This is an a-priori assumption that the web of the universe could not have come about, arisen by chance from Chaos. I think Chance is a possibility. (3.) I think God is a possibility. I prefer God.

(4.) When I look at the results of Hubble telescope, I am reinforced in my belief that God created the Universe, in all its complexity and magnificent beauty, and the bigger it appears now to be, the more I am sure that God would not have wasted so much prime real estate without putting Life on as much of it as He could. Nor, I am sure, would He have done so, without taking the proper precautions to keep each experiment station, planet, separate from the others. This is simple good lab technique.

(5.) The complexity question has always been the conundrum for me. Could this complexity of life evolve on this our Earth in only six or seven billion years, without a God to help it along? The sun is a third generation star. Each star generation seems to be about 7 to 10 billion years wherein stars are born, live, and die leaving dust and cinders. From this star dust and cinders new stars are born. The universe is thought to be between 21 and 30 billion years old.

Every atom in your body more complex than hydrogen was cooked into existence in the radioactive heart of a star. You are quite literally made of “star stuff” old enough to have lost its deadly radiation. (6.) My personal solution to the, ‘How was all this created?’ question, has been to believe in a God who may have started the whole thing, ‘she-bam!’ (related to The Big Bang Theory, but it might have been a silent Little Whisper Theory).

(7.) My personal solution has also been a totally disinterested God. Except to perhaps idly look in every million years, or so, to see how things are going.

(8.) A God that noted the fall of every sparrow, has always seemed to me to be Someone with too much time on His hands. A God who had to have an odd compulsion for order. It just seems more elegant to think up a system that will work without constant supervision.

That would be more of a God-like Plan.

(9.) As to the question, is God interested in human affairs? I quite doubt it. How could any “God” be interested in the infinitely boring trivialities of human life, society and existence, when His goal is the result, not the process?

An analogy: don’t tell me how they make catsup, or hot dogs, I like it, I enjoy it, and I don’t want to know what went into it.

(10.) What kind of a God would intervene, interfere, get involved all the time? Only One who was terribly bored with nothing important to do. The idea feels to me too much like a little boy playing with His action figures, His toy soldiers.

(11.) People, however, are not insensate play toys. They are complicated, rich in differences and intricacies. People are driven by chemical impulses they don’t understand. People are stuffed full of good and evil thoughts. People have desires and internal conflicts. People are blessed and cursed with free will decision making powers.

(12.) The thought that some folks have that they have a friendly, interested, paternal, taking care of His children type Father in Heaven. Their God is a God just above the blue sky or beyond the horizon paying attention to every tiny act and thought of every second of every day. This is nothing more than a childish fairy tale. This a security blanket for immature, frightened, insecure children.

I prefer a distant, inattentive God, because that matches the facts I observe. God is God. God is a CEO, not a floor cleaner. God is aloof to tiny local human concerns. My idea of God seems to fit what I have observed in life. My idea of God is that God does not pay attention to human concerns.

There is no proof, one way or another, so I rely on my assumption.

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(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace completed an MA and taught in the public schools for 28 years. He recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, the layers of money sucking priesthood, and their departures from the fundamental ideas and messages of Religion. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will outrage everyone. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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