God is an Asshole
Religion
2023-06-01
In the time that you take to finish your lunch, hunger would have claimed the lives of 500 people, including 200 children[1]. Stop reading and let this simmer in your head for a bit.
Our world has amassed insane amounts of wealth. Our technology has advanced to levels unprecedented a hundred years ago. Yet, we see a haunting contradiction—people are dying because they do not have a morsel to eat.
In 2017, an estimated 464,000 people were victims of intentional homicide[2].
On average, 1 in 3 women will experience sexual violence in their lifetime[3].
Let me assume that an all-powerful entity called God exists, and they created this world. They surely have the power to either have created a better world, or to create a world with 'rules' that cannot be broken (like causing harm to others). They have the power to stop someone from being raped, from being killed. The amount of suffering that could be stopped at the flick of God's hand is unfathomable.
The famous phrase from the Bible, "God created man in his own image", comes to my mind. Of course he did. We know that man is evil. Man is the image of God. To have created an evil world filled with vile creatures of the highest order, God undoubtedly must be evil.
Does God play favourites?
"Hmm. This one kid prays a lot. She's my favourite. She alone should not die of starvation. Let me provide her family with opportunities."
Or maybe, "Looks like someone is stalking this girl. Seems like she is about to experience one of the worst things anyone can go through. Alas, she did not pray hard enough."
A God, if they exist, cannot be anything other than a mass murderer. It does not make sense to believe in God in the first place. But say you do believe in them. How do you not hate them? God is magnitudes worse than any genocidal maniacs that we've experienced in the past, such as Hitler, Stalin, or Churchill.
In my imagination, hell is a place with God in it. Imagine having to eternally live in a place cohabitated by a self-indulging mass murdering piece of shit.
If there is a God, he will have to beg my forgiveness.
—An Anonymous Holocaust victim