Answers in Numbers

While a negative cannot be proved nor disproved, a false positive claim can be refuted.

TL:DR version;
god is Universal or else not god at all.

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All religions are false as they are based on childish fantasy tales that do not stand the scrutiny of inquiry and reality.

Number one, and please, please try and grasp this concept wholeheartedly, if a real god existed and was both omnipotent and omniscient, it would be a Universal god common to and known by every human on the planet, every human now alive and all who ever lived.

No such god exists, none has ever existed.

Such a god, having the ability to monitor every human’s every action and thought would also be able to directly communicate it’s existence, thoughts and wishes throughout all of its creation.

Being able to communicate directly rules out the need for any clerics as conduits.

Such a god needs no apologists.

Such a god needs no tithes.

Such a god does not demand worship, rather, earns respect.

No such god exists, none has ever existed.

Such a god could not, would not have a ‘chosen’ people chosen over others of its creation.

Such a god could not, would not demand one group of its people to demean, devalue and/or outright kill those of other groups of it’s people, it is truly absurd and immoral to believe otherwise.

Clerics have created, commandeered and manipulated ancient myths for centuries, manipulatively exploiting the naive, gullible, innocent and wholesome for their own personal profit, power, position and prestige. Evil governmental and financial interests in turn support and exploit religious systems for their own nefarious and greedy purposes.

Clerics are the disciples and embodiment of evil though they work hard and successfully to convince their followers otherwise.

It’s an individual’s choice to decide if clerics tell the truth or if they are intentionally deceptive and manipulative or honestly deceived themselves.

A real god if it existed and desired to reveal itself, its desires, rules and laws through a revealed scripture, such a scripture would be written in such a way as to be clear, understandable and available to and by every human everywhere with no interpretation needed or even possible.

It would be written, presented and distributed in such a way as to be impossible to copy or translate incorrectly, this, after all, is an omnipotent and omniscient being doing the writing.

No such scripture exists.

If you’re still here reading, ask yourself the following questions regarding your god and your scripture.

Decide then if the answers you find within yourself came from concepts you were taught to believe or if you were able to determine the answers yourself through rational thought based on evidence or lack of evidence.

What is your proof to yourself and how did you determine that proof?

Is your god the omnipotent creator of everything including all living things?

Is this god known to all humans?

Does this god have a ‘chosen’ people he favors over others of its creation? Has it commanded its ‘chosen’ to commit genocide on others of its creation? Is this concept not self-contradictory and highly immoral?

Does this god demand tithes?

For what purpose?

An omnipotent non-corporeal deity has no use for material things.

If, as according to scripture, it created everything, then everything belongs to it.

Does this god communicate directly with its humans?

Or do shamen, witch doctors and charlatans claim to be its oracles?

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Through many twitter conversations it appears the explanation above of a Universal god is not explained well enough.

Let’s apply some imagination.

Imagine it possible to leave earth and the plane of the solar system to a position that we can view the solar system effectively looking down or up upon the solar system and that we can see the solar system in it’s entirety.
From this distance, we may need a telescope to see Earth at all, at best Earth will appear as a small spec of rock or dust.
From this position we can also get a sense of the grandeur and expanse of our own Milky Way galaxy, a view of our nearby galactic neighbors, twinkling of distant galaxies.
From here we can also get an inkling of the very vast expanse of time on a cosmic scale.

Done with that imaginary space traveling exercise, back on Earth.
If an all powerful deity exists or did once exist that created the cosmos and everything in it, such a deity would be a grand being indeed.

If such a deity had consciousness and wished to reveal itself to its human creations it would reveal itself to ALL its human creations, not just a select few illiterate or barely literate desert dwelling, herders, traders and peasants.
Such a deity would not, could not rationally have a ‘chosen’ people commanded to genocidally eliminate it’s neighbors yet Abrahamic religious followers are commanded exactly that.

There is a meme circulating on Twitter showing the small area of influence where all Abrahamic allegedly revealed scriptural events occurred, It is re-posted here with author unknown and credit impossible.

How is it possible for anyone with a working intellect to believe that an all powerful deity that created the grand and majestic Cosmos and chooses to involve itself in the affairs of humankind would or even could reveal to and concern itself with only the inhabitants of such a relatively small geographical area?

How is it possible to surrender the use of one’s intellect to the degree required to believe an all powerful deity would impose thousands of different sets of rules and demands on different tribes and cultures throughout the World?

If there is or was an all powerful deity that chose to involve itself in and with humanity’s affairs and reveal itself to humanity, the only rational possibility is that this deity would reveal itself coherently to all humans when and where ever they lived.

Such a deity would be obvious, apparent and UNIVERSAL to all of humanity, would need no rabbis, priests nor mullahs to explain and interpret it’s intents.
Any truly revealed scripture would be written in such a way as to be unalterable even when translated, a writing ability to be expected from an all powerful being.

A truly revealed scripture could not contain erroneous myths easily refuted by continually accumulating and advancing human knowledge, myths such as Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah’s Flood and The Exodus.
Instead a truly revealed scripture should and would contain concise answers regarding the origins of The Cosmos, The Earth and Life, it would contain instructions how to deal with all diseases effectively.

There could be no arguments nor disagreements yet arguments and disagreements never stop.

That apologetics exist and flourish insults  and instantly refutes the veracity, the truths, of allegedly revealed scriptures.
An all powerful, true and real deity needs no one and no thing making apologies and/or excuses for it.

No belief nor faith in unapparent and unverifiable alleged truths would be needed if a real god chose to reveal itself.

“We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
and of all that is, seen and unseen….”
Is THE base falsehood that all with a functional intellect should question and challenge.

“There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason… Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.”
Martin Luther, quoted by Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic, (Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1963), p. 75

Do you accept Luther’s edict condemning your intellect?

Or;

1 Corinthians 13:11
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.”