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Subj: [rael-science] [with Rael's comment] Send a Message to God: He has gone too far this time.
Date: 1/12/2005 2:02:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
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The Raelian Movement
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Rael's comment: finally the god's believers start to use their brain...
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Source: http://www.slate.com/id/2112083/
Send a Message to God
He has gone too far this time.
In the wake of the tsunami disaster, it's time for believers to take a
more proactive role in world events. It's time to boycott God.
Centuries of uncritical worship have clearly produced a monster. God
knows that he can sit passively by while human life is wantonly mowed
down, and the next day, churches, synagogues, and mosques will be
filled with believers thanking him for allowing the survivors to
survive. The faithful will ask him to heal the wounded, while ignoring
his failure to prevent the disaster in the first place. They will
excuse his unwillingness to stave off destruction with alibis ("God
wasn't there when the tsunami hit"—Suketu Mehta) and relativising ("for
each victim tens of thousands yet live"—Russell Seitz), even if those
excuses contradict God's other attributes, such as omnipresence or love
for each individual life.
Where is God's incentive to behave? He gets credit for the good things
and no blame for the bad. Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is
fond of thanking God for keeping America safe since 9/11; Ashcroft
never asks why, if God has fended off terrorist strikes since 9/11, he
let the hijackers on the planes on the day itself. Was God caught off
guard the first time around, like the U.S. government? But he is
omniscient and omnipotent.
So slavishly do his worshipers flatter God that they give him credit
for things he didn't even do. Let a man rape and murder a child, and
it's the man's offense; but if someone tends to the sick or shares his
wealth, it's God's hand at work. The Most Rev. Gabino Zavala from the
Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese rejects any suggestion that God
forsook the tsunami victims, according to the Los Angeles Times, but he
credits God with the subsequent charity: "You can see God in the
people's response—how they're reaching out."
It is a sad fact of human relations that unqualified adulation often
produces from the adored one contempt and a kick in the chops, rather
than gratitude and kindness. Apparently, the same applies to
human-divine relations.
So, let the human race play hard to get. Imagine God's discombobulation
if, after the next mass slaughter of human life, the hymns of praise
and incense do not rise up. He checks the Sunday census; the pews are
empty. Week after week, the churches and mosques are unattended; the
usual gratitude for his not wiping out even more innocent children does
not pour forth.
He starts to worry. Has he gone too far this time? Maybe he should've
exercised his much heralded powers of intervention, the same powers
that his erstwhile worshipers presupposed every time they prayed for
him to cure a cancer victim, or get them into law school.
And so, no longer guaranteed an adoring public, he starts to make nice.
He calls back avalanches poised to wipe out whole villages; he brings
rain to drought-stricken communities; he cures fatally handicapped
babies in the womb, or prevents such flawed conceptions before they
happen. He presents tokens of his love to malaria victims and children
paralyzed by auto accidents. Africa blooms with peace and prosperity.
It might not work. But the "I'm rotten-You're divine" syndrome isn't
too functional, either. It's worth a try; there is nothing to lose.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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