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To know god is a very serious business.

I have lived among many nationalities and befriended people of different faiths and denominations. I found that the majority of them are sincere and have pure hearts. They truly believe in their particular faith and are willing to sacrifice their own lives for it, with the exception of the Muslims who prefer to sacrifice the lives of others first. But even that is done with sincerity because they are promised that by killing the non-believers they will go to paradise. It is absurd to believe that close to two billion Christians who failed to accept Muhammad as a Prophet of God are insincere and all of them will go to hell. It is also absurd to believe that over one billion Muslims who preferred Muhammad to Christ will go to hell.

Religionists say that God is all loving. But it is clear that the foundation of this world is not based on love. Every day billions of creatures die for other creatures to feed on them and live. Is this how a loving god would design the universe? Every day thousands of innocent human lives are destroyed in God-made and man-made disasters. Why God does not intervene? Religionists for lack of answer to this question say: he is testing us! What an outrageous thing! There are 40,000 children who die every day because of malnutrition and diseases associated with poverty. What test they have to give? To prove what? The other lame excuse is that God is patient? Is that a virtue? Can any loving God sit patiently letting small children be blown up by terrorist bombs, killed in earthquakes and other disasters or simply withered by prolonged hunger? What does this "all knowing" and "compassionate" god want to prove? Why he is so oblivious of the cries of the wronged ones in this world? In my country if one sees someone in danger and is able but does not intervene to help, that person could be prosecuted. If God sets foot to Canada, I will take him to the court for crime against humanity. No war criminal has done more harm to people than God. Is he less compassionate than humans? Why he does not come to the rescue when his children need him? There are three possible answers to this question: . 1- God sees the pain of the people, suffers because of it but cannot help. . 2- He dose not know what is happening and does not hear the supplications of those in desperate need. . 3- He knows what is happening and can help but decides not to

God knows what is going to happen in the future. In that case not only we humans have no control over our own destiny but also God has no control over his. If he does something different from what he knows that he should do then he proves to be not all-knowing because he has done something of which he had no idea of and if he dose exactly as he had planned without any deviation or change of mind, then he has no free will. He is acting like a robot doing what he is supposed to do. This also raises another problem. If God knows the future, his knowledge of the future makes it impossible for us or him to act differently and therefore our prayers and supplications are of no use. What has to happen and is in the knowledge of God will happen anyway, whether you pray or not. Then why pray for the peace? Why pray for the deceased? Why pray for blessing, bounty, protection, forgiveness or wisdom? Isn't praying a total waste of time? Prayers affect only the one who believes in them. There have been people that have miraculously recovered from their diseases by praying. But this is not due to the power of the prayer but the power of their belief. It is the placebo effect. The brain does have the cure for all our diseases and positive thinking, imagery, autosuggestion and beliefs can stimulate the release of the endocrines that do cure the ailment. However, you could take advantage of the power of your brain without the need to rely on the mumbo jumbo of a god. What is the purpose of the prayer anyway? When you ask God something, isn't it that you are asking him to change his mind and do something that otherwise he would not have done it? Isn't this sheer arrogance to expect that the author of this universe change his mind to appease us humans, the decedents of a bunch of African apes? The whole idea of prayers is just ludicrous. We humans live in a relative world. We are not perfect and therefore are left on our own to choose between the bad, the good and the better. This is the source of our freedom. But God is perfect. He can do only the best. Can God do something, which is wrong? If he can and does it then he is no more perfect but if he cannot do wrong and whatever he does is perfect then he has no freedom of choice. The God as taught by religions is not a free god. Of course this is a long subject and I know that this debate has been going on for centuries. But the reason it is not settling is not because there is not enough evidence to disprove God. There is plenty of evidence and I have just scratched the surface of it. The reason because people, and many of them very intelligent and brilliant people, are not willing to give up the notion of a personal god is because of their emotional ties to this imaginary creator. The religionists also present their own reasons to prove the existence of God. But all of those reasons can be easily rebutted while no one is able to answer to the proof presented against the existence of God.