by Edward Webber

Created on: April 22, 2009

Like any other Christian in my youth, I heard that god is all powerful and not only that, but that he had a specific plan laid out for me and everyone else. I heard that he knew what I was thinking, what I did in my free time, that basically my every move was under watch. All at the same time I would hear about the evils in the world and how the devil would try to manipulate me. All of these arguments are not only irrational, but actually not well thought out either. Upon examination, not only is there not a god, but if there was and it was omnipotent and omniscient, it would not be worth worshipping.

The argument that God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent is a hypocrisy in itself, especially when speaking about Christianity. One of the main tenants of Christianity is the battle of good versus evil, with the devil or Lucifer being the evil. All throughout history it has been claimed that the devil has been responsible for major atrocities. This of course flies in the face of god being omnipotent because not only can the devil manipulate god's creation, but god either can't prevent that action, or doesn't, which is far more evil than the act itself. You also have to take into consideration what someone with ultimate power is not only capable of, but you would and should expect from them. What I would expect is a perfect world, creation, people, universe, etc. Instead you see what we would more expect from random chance, which is a completely chaotic universe, full of uninhabitable planets and a world full of imperfect people. Now I have heard Christians say that the reason the world and people are imperfect is because of Adam and Eve and because they ate the fruit of the tree. This line of reasoning probably is the worst explanation that could be used. First, Adam and Eve had no knowledge of good and evil, they were literally like Children, not having any shame and never having ever encountered what a lie is. Second, the garden had a talking snake within it, supposedly the devil, who convinced two really stupid people to eat an apple that would give them knowledge. Now if god really was omniscient, he would have foreseen all of these events and either given Adam and Eve the knowledge to know right from wrong, or simply stopped the devil from entering the garden. If god did know all of this was going to happen, yet let it happen with the full intention of punishing his own creations of his own design and plan, then this is far more evil than any act ever

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