I’m sure this is not a new event. I’m sure that this type of thinking is as old as time. I’m sure that the god nogod has always been and always will be, for this is how it must be among intelligent beings.
It has been said by many that we all worship the same God. And that when we pray, this god hears our prayers. The universal god of all, worshiped by each according to the customs and teachings of the society in which each of us has been born and raised.
I reject this premise. I reject it, for it is a lie, meant to deceive.
Most of the world revolves around two great religions. When I was growing up, I believed that the predominate faith of the world revolved around Christ, the son of God. And although many factions of that faith existed, in the end, we all prayed to this being in one way or another. Either to his Father, as he has directed, or to him, as our needs have directed.
Either way, the being to whom we seek for guidance, direction, solace, and blessings, is Jesus of Nazareth spoken of explicitly in the New Testament, and implicitly in the Old.
During my youth, some 50 years ago, a great movement began in which we as a society embraced the thought that it is possible that this God to whom we refer so often, could very well be a myth. And therefore his teachings, which we as a society publicly embraced, are actually arbitrary, and shouldn’t be forced on everyone.
One of the most fundamental aspects of this God that the Jews have given us is embodied in his teachings of choice. In other words agency. We as intelligent beings, may choose. And at the heart of his teaching are the Ten Commandments.
Over the years, these principles of how we live have become arbitrary, in our choosing how to live. If god is a myth, what makes these ten principles of society so important that we must pattern our lives after them?
If there is no god, then we are free to choose what we believe is right and wrong. And so this philosophy has been growing for the last 50 years, a cycle of two generations, going on three. This is not a new thought, it is as old as time. But in the context of this nation, its founding and the constitutional basis of its existence, this shift in thinking creates some serious conflicts.
The two major gods in the world today are the god of Israel, brought to us by the Jews and labeled as Christianity, and the god of the prophet Mohamed, and labeled as Allah, the father of the Islamic nation.
Can these two gods be the same in the end? Since we all come from the same father, then this must be true. Or at least, that is the premise by which many believe, that this god who created all mankind, hears and answers the prayers of all his children, no matter by what name he is called.
Although this would work in the general sense, this type of thinking also ignores the Christian concept of conflict. That good and evil actually exist. Light and darkness. Right and wrong. Christ and Lucifer. That in choosing how and what to believe is actually choosing between the right way to live, and the wrong way to live. A choice that leads to happiness or sorrow.
What if these two great gods of ancient myth, actually exist? And that they have somehow managed to establish their own religion, which through their faithful followers, rules the nations founded so very long ago by the fathers of the now present faithful children?
What is at the basis of Christianity, as presented by Jesus? What is at the basis of Islam, as presented by the prophet Mohammad?
As I understand it, Jesus conferred with angels and beings sent by god and then presented us with the things that he was taught along with an organized church from which we gain guidance and direction on a daily basis.
As I understand it, Mohammad conferred with angels and beings sent by god and then presented us with the things that he was taught along with an organized church from which we gain guidance and direction on a daily basis.
Rules to live by, which form and fashion our lives, our thoughts, and the essence of our very being.
In the end one of the gods gives a choice in how we live and what we believe, the other compels us in how we live and what we believe. One of the gods allows us to be who we want and do what we want, as long as we do so with respect of others and within a framework of laws which protect all from malice and harm. One of the gods requires everyone to live according to his dictates, under penalty of imprisonment or death. The only option is to believe, or die.
And then there is nogod. Within the framework of a free society, or a Christian based government, this is also a choice. And many have chosen nogod to worship. A shifting code of values, that inevitably becomes a basis by which to live. A world in which nogod exists, is a world filled with gods, for each intelligent being, by his very right of intelligence, becomes a god.
And the greatest and most powerful gods are the ones with the most money and political power. Those gods that have risen to positions of wealth and power, either by birth or education. Since nogod exists, whatever greatness they have obtained is by their own doing, and therefore they feel it is important for all to believe as they do and act as they think all should act, for after all, are they not great? Are they not as god?
And in the end, they, the new gods who believe in nogod, rule with benevolence. Forcing us to live as they dictate and choosing for us the life style that is most conducive for our happiness. And because they are gods who follow nogod, it is important to recognize that we must protect the earth from ourselves, and not waste the precious resources. Therefore, lesser beings that by their very nature are not great and powerful, but are to be looked upon as the machinery by which the greater and more powerful beings, those with wealth and the scepter with which to rule, are sustained, must be controlled and regulated, guided and directed in how each life is lived.
We, the ruled, must not destroy this earth by our gluttony of the natural and limited resources. We, the ruled, must not destroy the earth by changing the weather, or overpopulation, or, or, or whatever the popular notion of the followers of nogod currently choose to believe.
In the end, this god named nogod, takes from us our agency. Destroys our ability to choose. And leaves all who are left under his treacherous rule, in chains. Chains of ignorance, poverty, and servitude.
So I propose that there really is only two gods.
And the god nogod? He is actually the great deceiver, the prince of darkness, who captures the soul, and carefully leads his followers down to a place called hell. For he whispers in their ears and says, “Believe it not, there is no heaven and there is no hell, for I am not and Christ is not, only man exists.”
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