Monday, February 8, 2010

Is God Imaginary?

According to the author of this website, belief in the Christian God is a delusion, because such a God doesn't exist. The author supports this contention with 50 different independent arguments, or items of evidence. Number 1 on the list is the fact that the vast majority of prayers go unanswered, even though many of them, such as prayers for world piece or famine relief would be of great benefit to humankind. In fact, the author says that "God never answers any prayers," arguing that the rare cases in which they appear to be answered are just coincidences brought about by statistical probabilities.

As another example of the arguments, number 10 is called "Watch the Offering Plate". In this article the author wonders why churches have to take up collections instead of just asking God to give them whatever money they need.
His conclusion is that they have to pass the offering plate because God is imaginary.


Argument number 30 is called "Examine God's sexism". It quotes numerous passages from the bible which say that women should be submissive to men, or even that women must not speak in church. It concludes that a real God would not have allowed such statements to get into the bible, so therefore he doesn't exist.


I won't try to describe all 50 arguments, and in fact didn't take time to read all of them. But the ones I did read do raise some interesting questions. If you want to examine some of the others, go to God Is Imaginary. In addition to the articles, the site also contains a forum, a blog, and some videos.

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