This thread is funny. You guys are cute.
If “God” exists in the sense that you all seem to believe he does, then he is neither “evil” or “good,” but contradictive.
The contradictions can be found in an examination of one’s personal relationship and struggle with “God.” I cannot speak for you, but my involvement with “God” is experimental…I neither fear him or adore him. I spend my days contradicting him through the use of people.
Let me give you a popular example. Let’s say I go out tonight and kill a capitalist. God might expect me to think that this is “wrong,” yet I would expect God to think it was right. Here, God is at a paradox…this is his problem…not mine. For if he cannot convince me that the deed was wrong, then my thinking must rely on faith. Not faith in anything rational, but in the absurd…the very fact that I am suffering at the hands of a capitalist, who, according to God, is a “test” for me. Now, I ask, who is the test for the capitalist? If I do not do the deed, then I will suffer, and could only hope for a reward given to me by God for enduring such. But at the same time, God has to know that I know that I cannot know that I will be rewarded…another paradox. The suffering is real, the faith is an excuse not to resist. I would choose to do the deed and wager on suffering in hell for eternity. But I would rather suffer for eternity than spend a life suffering with only faith to get me through. This is God’s problem…not mine.
Now, God has his hands full. He has created a monster, a monster who is not affraid to be punished by his creator. A monster who uses his creations, other men, as an example of his mistake.
My battle is not with men, but with God through other men. I am better than God because the ideal I wager against the suffering I would endure in hell is for the comfort of other men. When I kill the capitalist…that is one less monster that exists to exploit and hurt other men, and I am prepared to go to hell for that. Is this, then, not the greatest sacrifice to men? Indeed it is…and God has contradicted himself yet again.
The other day I was arguing with a friend who told me that a recent incident, a dent which was put in my truck, was “karmic punishment” for something I did.
Now watch this.
The person I did “wrong” to to deserve that karmic punishment must have also done something wrong which deserved the deed I did to him, so on and so forth. For if a bad deed done to me is compensation for a deed I did to someone else, then they too must have deserved the deed I did to them, etc., etc.
God is contradicted again.
There are several other ways to find these little gems in the relationship to God. The conclusion is this: I do not bother with God or Devils…but fight against them both, not because they are “evil,” but because they are silly, absurd, contradictive, stupid, ridiculous, etc.
For this I will need a subject…a target. A type of man to use in this battle. The man I choose to use as an example is the capitalist. He dies, and I shove his spirit up God’s ass.
On the other hand, this is what the devil wants…so, I deal with him as well. I find his followers and do them too.
What God and the devil is not prepared for is the fact that I fear neither of them…and that I truely believe my deeds to be good for mankind.
The final problem is here. IF, and I stress that if, God actually does exist, and the people I kill are “good,” then they should be fine after they die…and will go to heaven. So essentially, I am not “hurting” a person who will go to heaven if they are truely good. I am, ironically, doing them a favor by ending their lives sooner. If God does not exists…then the deed doesn’t matter anyway.
It is extremely easy to put God and the Devil into checkmate.