Lack of Agreement of What God Does
Beyond the question of what God is there is the question of what might be called God’s “output”: the things God supposedly does or has done. For some, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe. For others, God created the universe so well that it doesn’t need sustaining. And for still others, the universe existed before God. Then there’s the question of whether the universe young or old.
This leads to other questions. Has there been no evolution, some evolution, or is evolution God’s method of creation? Does God intervene in nature with special acts called miracles? Does God answer prayer or strike bad people with lightening, plagues, locusts, and so forth? Does God cause good people to be good and bad people to be bad? Or does another god called Satan play a role here? Indeed, who is responsible for the evil in the world: God, Satan, or human beings with a divine power called Free Will?? ?
Despite these problems, it will still be useful to denote certain general categories of the god idea and then determine appropriate responses to each. That is what will now follow.
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God's sole purpose on earth is to collect money from the naive and deluded and give it to the church leaders to spend it ad lib.
Religions/cults are basically Pyramid Schemes selling products that have no evidence of being effective or in existence. Your monthly membership fee to your god pyramid scheme entitles you to the promise of "life after death",an escape from "eternal damnation", "invisible protection" or "seven thousand virgins"
You will be expected to attend frequently for sales meetings with singing (brainwahing) & prayer (hypnothrapy), where you will be pressurized into handing over more of your hard earned cash. Like all good pyramid schemes, you will be expected to recruit more fee paying members into the business and thereby enabling your own progression up your god company ladder and thus gain more personal benefits . You will be expected to go out into the market place, to raise money for your god business to gain more of the market share. You may be expected at some level to commit atrocities against another god business, religious group, tribe, or competitor and annihilate the competition or force an acquisition and convert them to your belief system
To all Theists who disagree with me and think this is very cynical viewpoint, I only ask one question:
"If God created the whole universe (and all the gold in it), why does He want your money?"
Because many people look at a mountain at different angles, and therefore see different things does not disprove, or even make unlikely, the existence of the mountain. The fact that many people see different angles, or ideas, of what God and his function are, do not disprove, or even make unlikely, the existence of God.