Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Omni

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”

One of the most fundamental debacles to humanity is religion. It has plagued this world like a sickness, like a cancer, rotting through our minds, disillusioning our living conditions, and killing our women, children, and men alike. Religion burns through humanities existence like a wildfire, spreading quickly, jumping gaps, chaotically yet methodically destroying our landscapes and leaving ash in its firey wake. It slaughters one another, brothers, cousins, sisters, fathers, mothers, as if they were insects climbing through the place where you keep your food. Our morality, or what is left, has been rotting for thousands of years with religion at its core like a blackened, darkened, heart. 

Religion is a sickness, at least how humans have altered it. 

Two primary sects of religious belief, or two religious groups who worship two "different" Gods, have caused the primary destruction in modern history. One, worshipping Jehovah, and one worshipping Allah. There are two things which have caused such destruction. One, both believe their religions justify them to massacre, murder, kill, and destroy infidels. The second is both groups have come to rely on some sort of scripture. A third, and perhaps more hidden truth is, both Gods, if existent, are one in the same. It is a requirement of both of their religions. If they are not the same, then they are, in fact, non-existent, fallacious, untrue, dishonest, lies, and therefore, not good. 

These are not the only ones, in fact. There are several others. Yet, what does this premise rely upon? One key claim which motivates, creates, and is the central part to both of these Gods-

Both Gods are allegedly Omni.


Yet, what does this mean? Omni is the latin origin for the root of several words used to describe most main Gods in history- Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent... And it is not these two Gods alone. "Om," for example, central to several religions including the Yogism, Buddhists, and even dabbling into Hinduism, is a universal mantra   worshipping this Omni figure. Do most even understand what Omni Gods must entail? Let us explore further.


If a God is Omnipotent, then a God is all-powerful.
If God is all-powerful, then God was all-powerful.
If a God is all-powerful, then a God has all power.
If a God has all power, then a God has all the power from every God.
If a God is all-powerful, then a God is the power from all Gods, all humans, and all creatures.
If a God is all-powerful, then a God must be all things, Gods, life, and unlife, alike. 
If two Gods are all-powerful, then they must be the same thing.

If a God is Omniscient, then a God is all-knowing.
If a God is all-knowing, then a God knew everything.
If a God is all-knowing, then a God knows everything.

From here, you might make several implied implications, for every one of these logical axioms must be true if and only if God, or Gods, are Omni.

For example... We could combine a couple and see what happens.

If God is all-knowing (and knew/knows everything), and God is all-powerful (and was all-powerful), then God must have been the Power which creates, devises, and guides our thoughts, for to deviate from this path requires power, but the only power we have is also a part of Gods power. 

Therefore (to put it simply), God, even before our existence, knew every thought you would make, and planned every thought you would make, and then created you, otherwise God is not Omni.

We could go on and on.

If a God is all-powerful, then every action performed by a human being is an action of God (for a God is all-powerful, and if a single action weren't God's, a God would not be all-powerful).


Regardless, it becomes apparent that these two bickering and fighting children who fight for some title are in fact worshipping the same Omni figure, for if something is all-powerful, it must be all of the power. Muslims, Jews, Christians, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, they all worship the same all-powerful image, and each one presupposes the other. If one is true, all must be true. If one is not true, all must not be true. It's simple as that. Still, they insist on fighting one another like two kids fighting over identical water bottles. 



This is, of course, simply highlighting the fact that all of these religious wars, which have gone on since humanities beginning, are in fact, based upon ridiculous illogic. 


Still, what purpose for religion?

Here, I'd like to contrast two groups, Atheists, and believers.

Believers tend to base their belief upon either scripture or a God, and act, behave, and devise their morality from such a feat.
Atheists have nothing separating them from their morals, actions, thoughts, and motivations- an atheist takes responsibility.

For example, when a believer performs a murder, they justify through a series of explanations, none of them relating to themself. 
"My scripture tells me to kill non-believers."
"I was receiving messages from Almighty which told me to kill people."
"I was proving my God is stronger than yours."

In contrast, when an atheist performs a murder, there is nothing to blame it on but themselves.

When an atheist acts, it's a matter of them. When a believer acts, it's a matter of their belief. One is deeply fallible, leaves tons of room for disillusion, and provides a framework for justification.

Who is moral, deep down?

Truly, think about it. Perhaps we shall return to this argument, at least in one shape or form, later.



One of the motivating factors behind why religion has wrought so much destruction over humanities existence is the fact that it is based upon interpretation. Scripture could be read thousands, and thousands, of ways. As a result, a Christian can perform something, justify it with a scripture, and explain it through that scripture, and another Christian will say "Oh, what a good Christian." Yet, if something is open for interpretation, does that not mean anything in the world is justifiable with that scripture? The inevitable answer is yes. Thus, could a religion based upon scripture ever be moral, or is it merely a way to justify actions?

This is one of the fundamental premises behind religion- it is created to make people feel good about their behaviors, to justify actions, and to allow them to blame bad things which happen on something which is greater than them. Inversely, it is to send gratitude toward something which is greater than them. Both are inevitably true, like two sides to a coin.


Now, let us discuss a few things. First, if God is all-knowing, and God is all-powerful, would God ever blame something or judge someone? No. If God is all-knowing, and God is all-powerful, would God ever punish someone? No. For God could punish no one but God. 

Still, believers go around trying to judge, blame, punish, and damn. What a childish, immature, and broken concept based on illogic impossibilities. 




Then, there are the fundamental parts to religion which are, simply, ridiculous. People pray, they send their thoughts to an all-knowing creator. If God is all-knowing, God already knows every thought you think (ironically, God even planned those thoughts). If God knows every thought you think, are you not always praying? Are you not always on the mental telephone with God? If not, your God is not omniscient, nor omnipotent. And if your God is not omniscient, nor omnipotent, then your God is untrue. If your God is untrue, could your God be good? 

Think about it.






Not to mention, Religion is based around location. It's like a genetic defect, a cancer, passed forth from generation to generation forced upon people by their environment. 

It's just a crutch. It's just an excuse. It's just a way to blame others for something an individual has not the courage, nor the internal truth, to take responsibility for.

By all means, if you wish to believe in a God who is Omni, great, and if you enjoy reading scripture, fantastic, but realize how hypocritical believing your religion is true and others are false is.

Learn to take responsibility.





The quote this post begins with... I could explain in so many ways, and that is perhaps the purpose of the quote. However, realize, if there is something greater than you, especially if it is an Omni God, it is perfectly perfect with you and your neighbor, even with a sword going through either of your stomaches. 





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