Thursday, 15 March 2007

• And now, a little light hearted Theosophy.

  An Examination of Why Savannah is Agnostic: Proving God Does Not Exist

  Today I will be working with these Christian postulates on the nature of 'God':

  -God is All Knowing (omniscient)

  -God is All Powerful (omnipotent)

  -God is All Merciful (omnibenevolent)

  -God judges people and sends them to eternal hell

  In my argument I will also rely on these psychological truths:

  - Every person is a product of their environment. Their personality is a "tabula rasa," a blank slate that is shaped after birth by their body and everything around them.

  -If you knew everything about a person (their thoughts, everything that happened to them in their past to make them who they are today) you could not help but empathize with them and realize that what they did is not "evil." If the person made wrong choices, it is because they did not know enough to choose the right way, or the environment they were shaped by caused them not to trust some choices. (An example of this would be a gang member who commits murder: He has been brought up in the gang and influenced to think that killing is ok, and maybe he has been brought up in a place where police do not protect people from crime, so the people must learn to rely only on themselves and protect themselves by retaliatory violence.)

  This is the idea that the "evil" things people do are not the fault of a perpetually "evil person," just someone who is a product of their environment: and knowing evil is caused by their environment, you must blame the environment, not the person. You must cure the disease to cure the symptoms of that disease.

  Here is the argument.

  God is all knowing= This would mean that God knows what events in a persons life caused them to turn to evil.

  God is all merciful= Therefore, God does not want us to go to hell, and he would do everything in his power to keep us from hell.

  God is all powerful=Since God is so powerful; so powerful that we lowly humans cannot even comprehend his power(so the bible says) God could change things in everyone's lives to keep them from becoming "evil" and going to hell.

  God does judge people and send them to hell= This is the antithesis of the conclusion gathered from the first three postulates. Therefore, one of the above postulates is false. Either,

  A) God is not Omnipotent

  B) God is not Omniscient

  C) God is not Omnibenevolent,

  or D) Hell does not exist.

  I would not worship a God of which A,B, or C were true. And if D were true, then there is no point in the entire Christian religion, because it would mean Jesus did not "die for our sins."

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