The philosophical quandary called “the problem of evil” proves that an all-loving father-god cannot exist.
No all-merciful creator would design leukemia — or breast cancer — or global pandemics and tsunamis and earthquakes that kill legions.
Thus, simple logic wipes out the compassionate deity of Christianity.
Taking logic further, let’s apply it to the supernatural notion of heaven and hell.
Each human personality is created by our huge brain, the most complex object in the universe. Logic implies that personhood dies when the brain dies. It doesn’t make sense that one’s identity would leave the dead body and travel magically to an invisible place.
If heaven and hell aren’t real, and the biblical god is a fantasy, he couldn’t have planted his half-human son in a virgin, allowed him to be executed, then resurrected him to heaven. More logic also raises doubts about Satan, the Virgin Mary, angels, demons, miracles, prophecies, hundreds of invisible saints and the rest of the supernatural spectrum.
A thinking person is struck by a conclusion that the gigantic worldwide religion of Christianity — followed by more than 2 billion people — is just fiction. It has no factual reality. It was cooked up long ago, in ignorant times, by various people’s imaginations.
Comedian George Carlin put it this way:
Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it: Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever, till the end of time! But he loves you. He loves you, and he needs money. He always needs money. He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money. Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy shit!
What’s wrong with humanity that billions of people swallow a magic tale and think it to be real?
