When someone feels incapable and insecure they look and reach out to God for help. You constantly see and hear people pleading to god for help when they feel insecure and incapable in a certain situation. This feeling of helplessness manifests itself into a Personal God. They believe in this personal god because they need it and they want to believe in it. This insecurity makes them create this god that looks over them. Something is not true simply because you believe in it or simply because you want it to be true.A classic case of ” you heard what you wanted to hear when nothing was said” ! .
Everyday disasters take place killing many people. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, hunger and disease affect people everyday. Did these people deserve the pain and misery that claimed their lives? The 911 destruction and the Tsunami to name a few . What about Darfur? Why did God not help these people? Weren’t these people crying out to their personal god just as you do? So if their personal god was not willing to help them, what makes you so sure yours will help you? Yet it seems that none of that bothers the supporters of this god. They say that God can do “whatever he wishes” and no one is to question him and his authority.It is surprising that while so many people admit that there is something unjust in the structure of this world they accept all that injustice under the pretext that God must know what he is doing and we are not to even think of questioning him.The funniest thing ever is the fact that he is subject to emotions like us. As his messengers have assured us, he becomes pleased with us or would be displeased with us depending on what we do. He can become angry, mad or loving and tender, depending on our behaviors. That is an awesome power given to us, the decedents of a bunch of African apes, to control the mood of the almighty God, the author of this unimaginably vast universe. That raises the all important question who is the BOSS ? In hindu mythical stories the Gods actually freak out if you don’t pay them attention. The Christian God does not fare well either . From what I have read it looks like he sends insects in hundreds when things don’t go his way .
There are 40,000 children who die every day because of malnutrition and diseases associated with poverty. What test they have to give? To prove what? The other lame excuse is that God is patient? Is that a virtue? Can any loving God sit patiently letting small children be blown up by terrorist bombs, killed in earthquakes and other disasters or simply withered by prolonged hunger? What does this “all knowing” and “compassionate” god want to prove? Why he is so oblivious of the cries of the wronged ones in this world?
No war criminal has done more harm to people than God. Is he less compassionate than humans? Why he does not come to the rescue when his children need him? If God knows the future, his knowledge of the future makes it impossible for us or him to act differently and therefore our prayers and supplications are of no use. What has to happen and is in the knowledge of God will happen anyway, whether you pray or not. Then why pray for the peace? Why pray for the deceased? Why pray for blessing, bounty, protection, forgiveness or wisdom? Isn’t praying a total waste of time? Prayers affect only the one who believes in them.
The mind of a human being can control his/her destiny more than a GOD can.
Well, if a deer gets cornered by a lion it won’t pray to God but it will run for its life.When things go wrong use your brain to plan the next course of action and please don’t sit in one corner and pray.
