A simple argument, sufficient to prove the impossibility of the existence of the god of the monotheists.
This argument is the obligation that is made to everybody to exist, whether it be a god, an animal, or a man. Existence is not something that one decides by oneself. All, god, animal or man, entity or pseudo-entity, we are slaves of Mother Nature. A slave cannot be a god. All the rest is only flourish, this serves to fill this article.
A god is not merely a word, it must represent an “entity” with potentialities. It is by defining this term, and therefore the capacities that are lent to this entity, that one can also demonstrate the impossibility of the existence of this entity, imaginary, whatever the believers say, since we never shared his vision.
We call on those who believe (without proof) to describe and define their god(s).
It is not, obviously, to the non-believer to prove the inexistence of something, or someone whose vision he cannot share. For, each individual could thus invent myriads of things and pretend that they exist because no one could demonstrate that they do not exist. The word is not the thing it represents. For example, let us say that a unicorn exists and build a stable, make laws to forbid hunting the unicorn, and make road signs to signal their passage... Men made such divine houses (unicorn stables) in all epochs and all countries. What remains of it today? Bye-bye, Astarte, Isis, Zeus, Jupiter, Toutatis, Odin, etc., and all their temples. How many men have been slained for these beliefs?
You have already heard of Canon Kir (a French), who answers the journalist, asking him about the fact that no one has ever seen God: “And my ass, you have not seen it, and yet it exists!” That applies to anything, to extraterrestrials as to Tinker Bell, and does not prove the existence of anything. Prude believers have repeated me the scope of the bottom by replacing it with electricity. I could have added, my liver, my spleen, my kidneys, etc., that even me have never seen.
I am still waiting for this definition and description of the deity, and I think we can wait for them for a long time.
For fun, let us demonstrate the divine impossibility. Let us take the god of the Christians, who have so inflated their transcendent imaginary friend that it is difficult to do better. They have even attempted to materialize it by means of a son-God, who is not really a god since he is not eternal because he is born, therefore dependent, morphology and potential, of his creator. (By the way: you must know that the Bible is not monotheistic since it speaks of “other gods”).
For these other gods, if they are just more powerful and learned than humans, can they really be called gods? Is deity only a title? Do immortality and relative power suffice to declare that a being is divine? Many Greek or Roman gods are mortal, since they eliminate each other, and are not even our creators according to mythologies. We must therefore consider that this type of deity is only a title, as a prince, a duke, or a baron. It is more fright and need for help than respect that makes them gods for humans. Superman is a kind of gentle modern god, but he does not have the title.
In the Bible, God begins by being a creator according to the storyteller, Moses who is only a legend, and then the same storyteller lends him the words “The eternal God is thy refuge”. Religion needs someone at least once to see God. One wonders why this god, who needs to convince a man of his existence by exposing himself in the incredible form of burning bush and the Tablets of the Law, could not do better by trying to convince all his creatures that I suppose equal to his eyes!
So I will talk about creation and eternity to begin with.
The most ironical argument against its existence being the obligation it would have made us to exist, simply to exist, nothing more. Obviously, if he does not create us equal to him, the perfect, well, we are imperfect. And how can one be responsible for existing and existing imperfect, since it is his will? How can we be other than human, since it creates us human beings. He must have mental problems, the poor old man, for he often gets angry at his own imperfect creation. Me, when I make a bug in my electronic assemblies or in my computer programs, I only blame myself.
When one does something, it's for this thing to serve the one who made it. The slave of Mother Nature makes us slaves. Imperfect and slave, that speaks volumes about his goodness and justice. Let us not speak of equality, since he cannot make us eternal, for in so doing he would lose his absoluteness, his omnipotence, his omniscience, and his infinity, and therefore his basic divinity. Since he creates us we are AIs, his Artificial Intelligences, that is how we name the things we fabricate having intelligence modeled on ours.
If we have an immortal soul, it makes a difference with eternity that has no beginning. And where would this immortal soul come from? It is good to ask the question, because at this very moment, during these 24 hours, and the same tomorrow, God is making more than 350,000 souls, since we impose our children on him. I wish your god that he has developed an automatic manufacturing factory of immortal souls, because no vacations for him, and no more question of rest on the Seventh day. It is daily that humans lay these 350 000 small fries, four per second, what a flow! But in fact, does not this obligation to make human souls or others, to order, not remove all free will to this god? The mere fact of having to supervise another entity suppresses the free will, since the actions of one command the reactions of the other(?)
God has built us hardly superior to the worm as regards the tooling faculty, compared to himself, the formidable creator. But in fact we are far inferior to the worm, for it is not consciousness and states of mind that bother the beast. Nudity question is not better.
I did not ask to exist, and that, I am absolutely certain, because only the fact that the request is conscious valid it for its author. (I exist because I was forced to do so, even though I owe this “tremendous” honor to a person who proclaims himself to be God and to relatives who claim to love me afterwards, why should I accept it without saying anything? If I do not intervene, innumerable innocent people will be put in the same galley for nothing, for Life is as absurd as the existence of the universe and the divine existence.
I did not ask to exist. This single point will suffice to make me innocent of all my actions, the past, the present, the future. I am innocent of my existence, innocent of my mental and physical abilities. A God cannot ignore this innocence. And even the need to educate cannot be a pretext for punishment. An omnipotent god must know how to operate a human worm without suffering, without threat, without torture, let alone manifesting its anger. What stupidity is this so-called divine wrath against a being he has fabricated himself! Are these inventors of mythologies stupid? Will I drown my computer when I make a bug in software?
But! God also has not asked to exist since he is eternal. And as he affirms it again and again in the Bible, it cannot cease to exist since he is eternal. Do you hear his eternal lamentation “Why am I rather than nothing?” I confirm that he cannot have initiated himself since this would make a beginning to his existence and would suppress his eternity, especially since in order for him to initiate himself, he must already preexist in the divine state, so with all its potentialities, and it is not clear why it should revive the same machine, rigorously identical and perfect as the initiator... Even if he had an ego problem, he is not stupid at this point.
The fact that he exists as he is, suppresses his deity, since he is not responsible for his own determination. He can do no better than his innate divine perfection. He can add nothing, subtract nothing, he exists perfect from the start, without ever having begun, but always being. Immutable.
I come back to Creation, for it has an experimental side that does not fit a perfect divinity. He is omniscient, so he knows. Why would he want to create something that would evolve alongside him? One thing, which he would deliberately not master, which would be like a grain of sand in its perfection. Yet he must experience everything because he is omnipotent. One cannot claim to be omnipotent without experiencing, for pretension to omnipotence is not enough to be truly omnipotent. So he experimented without the need to experiment since he knows everything in advance. It does not need a prototype. He imagines and that is enough. His certainty is enough. Not even need to realize. For him, the idea is worth the fact. And since he is a perfect god from the first second of his eternity (which means nothing, but I suppose you understand what I mean by that), he knows everything immediately, and all the rest of his eternity is an eternal renewal. Poor God! I hope that his first second was long... (I joke again, excuse me, that my parents engraved this in the skull that belongs to me, without my consent, from my birth, is something that can drive you crazy. You understand that having forced me to exist and that society has written nonsense in my own brain gives me the right to vituperate, howl, blaspheme, since I do not have neuron gum at my disposal.)
God being All, he functions as a superconductive. He cannot lose energy, he cannot win any. He is the only perpetual machine. Except its ability to have intentions, it is the definition of the universe that does not have any intention.
We must now explain the reasons which led us to imagine that a god is necessary for the universe to exist as well as for the admirable machines we are (Those are not my words). God being perfect, I do not see why the universe should not be perfect, since it is a divine creation. Why the perfection of the one would be more difficult to obtain than the other? With a god in addition, Ockham would add a difficulty to the resolution of the problem “universe”, and the dear man would not like it.
Apart from this reason which is in fact very secondary, the invention of the gods is due to the need to explain to children why they have been forced to exist, and to women why the risks they take in conceiving serve the divinity, and therefore why they will be rewarded. For, how an intelligent being can impose so many risks to exist for nothing (not for oneself in any case), to a person she is supposed to love, if there is no reason to live. Hence the belief in the gods everywhere on Earth, for one must be self-deceived so that such nonsense can be told to gullible children and to women who are deliberately under-educated by a patriarchate dominating the planet. These are not 800 men who die every day, but women.
But there will never be any reason to begin to exist, there will be only to continue to exist. And once you have made a suffering person, how do you undo the suffering?
We are machines, since they are composed, as regards the living, of automaton cells which do not know our existence. The kind of “software” that we have at the base can accept any minor changes, and among them the virus belief that makes a blockage of reason in a particular area. Believers remain fixed in the name of their religion during their lifetime, while the interpretation they make of it in their minds varies as they advance in age, for the meanings depend on the experiences we make.
Today we are at a threshold of understanding. When the gods are eliminated, where will the mental function beliefs block mentalities so that the human species to maintain? My hypothesis is the notion of love, which is a recent invention. Given that it is just as artificial, I have doubts about its ability to maintain the species. As Yves Paccalet says so well, good riddance humanity!
End – E. Berlherm