by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: May 13, 2009

The None Existence of God

If we look at the world today, there are as many reasons NOT to believe in an all-loving, omnipotent God, then there are to believe in Him - or Her, {as the case may be}. There are so many atrocities happening around the world, even as I write this down, that it is so hard for people to actually believe in anything Good at all. But, this is the paradox. As we watch the news report on war after war, death after death, we can go one of two ways on this. On the one hand we can become sort of blase about the whole thing, {as long as it is happening somewhere else, or to somebody else, then it doesn't really matter}.

Or we could go completely the other way, and say that as we watch those atrocities happening around us, we do sense, and feel an evil presence working within the world. Making its presence felt from nation to nation, person to person. And, if that being the case is true, if we do believe that there is some omnipotent all-encompassing evil working in the world among us, then does it follow that we HAVE to believe in an all-loving God too?

A child who is dying because of famine, where is God? A mother who is dying of cancer, or some other disease...where is God? A family who are wiped out in a car crash...where is God? Terrorists who maim and murder innocents, for a warped cause...where is God? It is so easy NOT to believe in God when things like those events are happening everyday. Unjust laws which deny the right to life and liberty to a people based on race, colour or creed...where is God? I could go on.

There are so many reasons not to believe, and maybe that is the easy route? Maybe that is the easy way out for human beings upon this earth? That NOT to believe in God keeps us in control, in a warped way of thinking. In other words, if we believe in God, then we must believe also in the Final Judgement of God on Mankind...and that is a scary thing for the majority of people.

To acknowledge that God exists means that we must also come face to face with our own frailties and weaknesses, our own vulnerability. And, human beings being what we are, we are full of pride, and self-indulgence. We think of ourselves as gods and think that we answer to no one. When terrible things happen in the world, it is easy to put it down as a case of 'bad luck' or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We pass judgement on others without a second thought for the consequences of those judgements on those that we pass them too.

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