Is God Good

If one believes that there is a creator, a designer of all that is, and that creator is god, then is that god good? christians, muslims and others seem to think so, and so do many pagans.

Let’s start by examining the core of our existence and sustenance on this earth plane---the food chain. Everything that lives needs to eat; and to eat, something else must die. The stronger kills the weaker, often in violent and cruel ways. Watch the parent animals teach their young to hunt in the wild. Pagans revere nature and do rituals in her honor; but the original pagans, those of ancient times, did rituals, not out of adoration, but as an effort to appease nature, hoping she would spare them and provide for them. These pagans often did ritual sacrifices to their gods of nature, acts that I see as murder. Even today’s modern pagans who think that if they raise their own animals and slaughter them “humanely” are really just mentally masturbating a rationale into existence to justify their acts. And the gods made all this possible.

Here’s something else to consider: laboratory results show that plants show stress when they are harvested, even when other plants in their proximity are the ones being harvested. And the gods created these plants and these outcomes.

God created everything; and everything created is sentenced to death at their birth. And no creature knows how or when that death may take place. There is no mercy. Nothing wants to die, even the most “enlightened” pagans. I have seen animals die; I have seen people die; and almost all of them did not want to, the exception being those who suffer pain with no hope to get better. To bring up the ideas of reincarnation and eternal existence from one lifetime to another with the assumption that we go through a process of experiencing karma and integration is unverifiable, and even the idea that there is a god/goddess that is consciously involved in our daily lives requires belief, because there is no evidence of such an entity; rather, experience shows just the opposite.

Life is a series of close calls, until one day something hits you right

between your eyes, and then you die. You can do rituals and you can pray; ask the Jews during the holocaust and ask the slaves down through history that suffered through the atrocities committed against them- did god save them; did he/she show mercy to them? And what about random acts of violence; rape, murder, torture; and how about earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, all made possible as a result of god’s creation? Let’s not even get into free will! I will say this: if you don’t do everything you can to keep yourself out of harm’s way, god will not; if you think that by taking responsibility for your own welfare means invoking god within you to get it done, by all means go ahead. But one day, after all your close calls and near misses, when something finally gets you, chances are it was beyond your control and that means god/goddess rules, more or less indifferently, and impersonally. The ancient Greeks saw gods as fallible and corrupt, and that might does not mean right. The more accurate assumption would be that the gods are amoral, so they cannot be judged good or bad.

By the way; christians and muslims and others believe in a judgment day. Wouldn’t it be compassionate and just, if this were so, that god would be the one on trial, not creation. If creation was so imperfect and “sinful” what does that say about a just and righteous creator/creatrix?! who made it all so? God/goddess is and was never just, or kind, or caring, or good; we just want them to be. So, we create them in our own image, hoping that ultimately god/goddess really cares.

Bless yourselves,

.CKEVN, 2008.