Any Old Actress

Traditional atheists and conventional christian theists are simply opposing sides of the same solipsistic, egocentric, ridiculous belief. Psuedo-christians seek to serve and obtain reward from their god on the basis of his love and altruism. A sort of benevolent dictator from whom they wish to accept everything without question. They do not want to know God, but to safely surrender their independent thought, and so accept suffering and unreasonable conditions with a convoluted sort of justification system. Atheists arrogantly and self-righteously reject this ludicrous and contradictory notion of such a god and choose instead to endure the pangs of unjust and unexplained suffering on their own. Of course, no one will acknowledge that we’ve reached these conclusions on the basis of an essentially flawed definition. Yes Atheists, it is contradictory (and therefore not imminently perfect) for an omnibenevolent god to cause the suffering that exists. If he cannot prevent it then he’s not omnipotent. At any rate, these are objections to the god that tradition has created in man’s image. Tradition seeks or rejects a god conceived as a sort of Superman. Omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omniscient… perfect. Everything we would be, and everything we fall short of being.

There’s no way that this is God. God cannot be so summarily defined. The simplest (and thus most likely) ‘definition’ of God is “the supreme or ultimate reality”. Supreme, the highest in degree or quality, seems to address the superlative nature of His traits. Working from the implied sense of infinite eternity in “ultimate” (whose definition comprehends both the farthest or most remote and the fundamental or original), God must comprehend the best, worst, and all of everything. This would include the necessarily contradictory superlatives. If God is, then he is all things and can reconcile perceived contradictions with the very reasonable paradox of being God.

I find that order and reason are very objective evidences of God, of Supremity, of Ultimate Reality. It seems very likely that God is this order and reason that in many places is beyond my reason. It would be a much more honest sort of egotism to reject God, by denying Him on the basis of our capacity to reason (like the objectivists do). But it’s a subtle and ridiculous sort of egotism that creates a Superman to follow, and then rejects him for being fundamentally human and incapable.