Do You Know God?

God has not revealed himself to me.

Even if he did, I'm not sure how I could be confident that it wasn't just some kind of delusion reinforced by my desires or my culture.

Oh, trust me.

You'd know.

God revealed himself to me.

Me too.

Oh, really?

Pleased to meet you.

I have felt God in my heart.

God speaks to me.

I have a close personal relationship with God.

Me too.

Amen.

You see?

God isn't silent.

He speaks to us all.

Right?

We can't all be wrong.

You just need to open the door when you hear God knock.

We all have a close personal relationship with God, and you can too.

Just accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on there.

Jesus, peace be upon him, was a prophet, but he was not God.

Yes, he is.

The only way to be saved is through faith in Jesus Christ.

Well, not faith alone.

Faith without works is dead.

Not so fast.

All of our righteous acts are like filthy rags to God.

It doesn't matter.

God loves us all.

We will all go to heaven and see the truth then.

You think even Hitler is going to heaven?

Even Hitler.

I'm sorry, but Hitler's gotta burn.

Uh, not if he repented.

Hitler's going to hell, and so is that guy who cut me off in traffic this morning.

You've all been blinded by Satan.

Jesus visited the Indians and cursed black people.

Say what?

And I'm going to get my own planet after I die.

Not if Zeno escapes his volcano prison.

Say what?

I believe I can straighten this all out.

We Jews are the chosen people.

Chosen for what?

To steal other people's lands?

That land was rightfully given to us by God.

It was not.

Okay, everyone, calm down.

Put the fighter jet down.

If God is speaking to all of you, then he appears to be telling all of you very different contradictory things.

Perhaps this rather glaring discrepancy can be explained if we examine the fact that your relationship with God seems to be precisely shaped by the culture in which you were raised and the predominant version of God you were taught to believe in.

Sure, there are exceptions, but typically religion obeys borders, while truth does not.

In America, God is Yahweh.

While in India, God is Vishnu.

The truth does not behave this way.

In America, 2 plus 2 is 4, and in India, 2 plus 2 also equals 4.

If God's message to us was so dire, so vitally important, then why wouldn't He give it to us in such a clear and precise way so that we would all be in agreement, as evident as a simple math problem in which there is universal agreement?

rather than trusting His precious message to be spread by fallible, corruptible human beings?

Why would Almighty God allow the continuation of such widespread falsehoods in His name, which would be effortless for Him to correct, or never even need to correct in the first place, because a perfect being would have gotten it right from the very beginning?

I can't wait to get my own planet.

Hey everyone, I'd like to make a quick shout out to the Skeptic Fence show, which is a bi-weekly show I like on Vaughn Life TV.

You can usually find me in the chat room there during the show.

I really enjoy interacting with you guys.

On the show, they usually discuss current events relevant to religion and atheism.

And they've had really great guests on.

People like Lawrence Krauss, David Silverman, Hemant Mehta, Bart Ehrman, Seth Andrews, Aaron Ra, Richard Carrier, Robert Price, Peter Boghossian, David Fitzgerald.

I believe they're going to have Matt Dillahunty on this month.

I'll put all the pertinent links in the description.

And usually, during the after show, you get to see me make an ass out of myself in various ways.

That we would survive and thrive was my great hope until I met Cocktopus.

No species... No species capable of creating a Cocktopus is worthy of existence.

Now...

It is not my hope, but my desperate need to see the earth swallowed by a black hole or engulfed by the devastation of a rogue comet, just so that I will not have to endure another moment of Cocktopus's existence.

Goddamn.

What?