What's Really Bugging You?

Where does the logic of so many intelligent people go when they start taking about God?

No rational person would ever say:

I don't believe in the sun, because it seems to me if the sun were the sort of star I could believe exists it certainly wouldn't put out so much radiation and kill my garden.

That's silly.

But they apply that very rational when they talk about God, and they do it all the time.

Science had taught me this about God:

When we consider things far larger than ourselves, things that exist regardless of us, it doesn't really matter what we think they should or shouldn't do. They do what they do regardless of what we think.

Yet somehow we believe God is exempt from this. All seven billion of us think that God should be exactly what we desire as we desire it.

I can only really conclude that we think so because we don't want to recognize God as being bigger than us, like a black hole, that would somehow take away our control.

We'd rather see him something more like an ant whose existence depends on whether or not we feel like allowing it on any given day.

On a bad day we might kill it for no real reason, but, if it doesn't bite us we could easily enough just ignore it and pretend that it doesn't exist at all.

Oh, but it does.

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