NOTE: the following material attempts to talk about religion in a humorous tone, but may be offensive to some people. So you can read it only if you promise not to issue me a death threat after reading this piece
One major problem these days is that ever since God stopped popping in for a chat with a devout follower or two, or maybe a poor homeless soul (who then becomes a priest of some sort), every now and then, people have started getting extremely touchy and hence agitated about whose version of what God wants from us and what he said to some follower of his is correct. So what we have now is a bedlam of preaching, arguing and scathing attacks by religious leaders on other religions, with every religion trying to prove every other religion wrong, deluded, and good-for-nothing. Above this we have the desperate and desolate shrieks of some “followers” who say that God has deserted us because of our degenerate ways. Of course in between an atheist might walk in and begin trying to very logically prove to a crowd of die-hards (who don’t give a damn about what he says) that God doesn’t exist, and unless protected by a team of bodyguards, the atheist ends up getting booed at and pelted with pebbles, fruits , eggs, and even shoes these days.
Anyway enough of that lets now shift to the main topic. I’ve grown sick of hearing people whine that nothing is right with the world as God isn’t with us, so I just want to say “give Him a break!!!” to all those who cry out that God has deserted us just because they don’t see many instances of God conversing with us mortals, or sending us miracles and other signs, (Of course atheists say God doesn’t exist and so he never interacted with us before and thus can’t interact with us now, but for arguments sake let’s assume that he does; else this is a waste of time and hard work.)
My argument against such people begins from the fact that most of these cases of God conversing with humans have occurred in and between the Adam and Eve and Noah’s ark period in each religion’s timeline (I’ve seen numerous articles all pointing out these as some of the common points of quite a few religions, though of course with modifications here and there)
So during these periods in the religion’s history each will agree that humans weren’t such widespread pests at those times, so I guess that at the most there were about a few million people around on earth (during the more populous times), so He had fewer people to chat with, and keeping in contact with a couple of million people should be a manageable task for an entity who creates universes.
But in today’s world there are more than 6 billion people around on this planet, and honestly speaking, we may have 200 people on our friend lists, but we interact only with 20-30 of them at the most in a day, due to our busy schedule. So if we can’t deal with 200 people in a day, we can’t really expect a guy with more than 6 billion people on his “friend list” to interact with all of them everyday. Yeah so what if he goes about creating and running universes, we may not necessarily be the only species in this universe (‘cause if we are, then God would be being really silly in giving us so much space, or naïve in assuming that we won’t kill each other off long before it’s possible for us to occupy this VAST space that is the universe, and I don’t believe that God is either), so our expectations are probably a ‘little’ unrealistic.
Also how can be sure that he doesn’t interact with us anymore? There are so many cases world-wide of people claiming to have met or at least chatted with God even these days (and the fact that more than half were high on something when they met Him, or just crazy doesn’t really count, atheists will call anyone with such a claim crazy, even priests and prophets)
Well now as I conclude this piece I hope some of the screaming and whining crowd of fanatics reads this and stops arguing about religions and God to think long and hard upon what I said above (the longer the better, it’ll bring down the noise levels in the world for some time)
