God, Atheism, and Religion

This won’t be an actual essay rather than my pure opinion and thoughts. Recently I had started watching David Wood again on his videos about Islam, good stuff. However so, on one of his videos, a guy commented, this guy is a verified channel, and from the replies I can deduce he’s an atheist. So I checked it out, and apparently I had saw his channel before. I was searching for a specific video he had that was mentioned in Wood’s comment section. That video was titled “...but intelligent people believe in God”, basically an asnwer to why intelligent people still believe in God. This writing won’t be a direct response towards that video, but the overall topic of God, theism/atheism, religion, and so on. So, here we go.

The video describes the claim of God as a ridiculous claim, that is believed by intelligent people because of parental education, which embeds such idea into these intelligent folk’s minds. In my opinion however, it’s weird how theists would use the idea that intelligent people believe in God supports the existence of God. I mean, we should be looking at the validity of their reasons for believing in God, rather than their reputation of intelligency. If their reasons are invalid, there is no reason to believe them. Of course, I am a theist myself, but I have had my beliefs shaken multiple times, and I too favor reason and truth above mere theism. And so, it becomes my concern if people use the wrong arguments to prove the truth. Both the premise and the conclusion must be true, or it’s simply unacceptable. Now, atheism.

The problem of many atheists today is they are all fooled by the institutions known as religion on the very meaning of God. People, atheists and theists alike are too focused on the personalized meaning of God. That God is a person, has a fixed nature and so and so. Notice how most atheists, when referring to God will talk about religion. You see, their problem is not with the idea of God itself, but the abuse and misuse of such idea by institutions and doctrines that is propagated by said institutions. They also misunderstood that if you believe in God, you have to be affiliated with religion. That idea is just plain out wrong. The belief in some sort of higher force has existed before formal institutionalized teachings are created. In fact, while believing in a religion means you believe in some sort of God, believing in God does not equate belief in religion. Such as I do, and my definition of God does not have to be strictly attached to the common religion such as the Abrahamic religions.

Some people may argue that if we change the definition of God, then it will be arbitrary and we can simply change the meaning of the word until it suits existence and so on. Such as unicorns, we can change it from the actual meaning of a horse with horns specifically, to perhaps just an animal that looks like it or whatever. The problem with such comparison is that unlike the word “unicorn”, which is agreed upon, the word “God” actually has different meanings depending on the ideology, and also religion. Monotheism dictates a singular personal God, while pantheism states that God encompasses all, and the universe itself is God in a way. However, most of the ideologies concerned with God will have common characteristics, that God is a force higher than all of us. God is a controller, one that manipulates the universe in a way or another. And is the supreme force over the world. You can add other features such as in Christianity, that God is a trinity, sent His son to the world and so and so. But none of these doctrines are intrinsic features of God, they’re just human interpretations, and thus is born religion.

The problem with religion is they are often ethnically centralized. They also have very fixed definitions and stories of God that makes the meaning of God distorted. They are based upon claims, hearsay, and other things that are hard to prove. Let’s dissect Christianity for a bit, why is according to the religion, there is no salvation outside of Christ? Perhaps saying there is no salvation outside of God would be more sensible, but it has to be Christ, as if you can’t find any other good morals outside of the teachings of Jesus Christ. What about the concept of trinity? That concept doesn’t make much sense either. As you see, the Gospel itself contains many elements that is hard to relate to and seems to be exclusive. Eventually, we can see that many elements of Christianity and religion in general seems to be merely ritualistic and traditional in nature, and not actually addressing the idea of God. My personal opinion is all of the cultural and traditional elements of Christianity can be broken down into universal values and ideas that is unattached to culture or tradition. A true teaching of God. So, why am I so troubled with the cultural and traditional aspects of religion? Here we go.

Before I can address that issue, I have to prove that God exists, and what God actually is. Let’s address morality first. As you see, morality is merely an arbitrary concept created by humans, do you see animals behaving morally? What about asteroids avoiding earth because it would be immoral to massacre us? No, you don’t. My point is, I will be addressing God in a purely materialistic manner, seems contradictory as many people view God as supernatural, well I’ll show you why it’s wrong. Now the problem with non-materialistic arguments of God is they are unproven and would require God to exist first. Morality is included, so we want to prove God with facts and ideas that are known to be true. Or ideally speaking, with a probability of almost 100%, our traditional view of certainty. So we will be discussing God from a purely materialistic perspective, here we go.

Does God exist? Well what is God? Most people agree that God is a higher force. Whether Jesus is God or Muhammad is a messenger of God is up for debate, but again those elements are strictly cultural. So we won’t be discussing religion at all. So God is a higher force, but what kind of higher force? Is God conscious or dead? That’s a popular question. If God is dead, and inanimate, we can surmise that the physical laws are the very manifestation of God. Perhaps the entire universe is God itself, or God is the vibrations of the quantum spectrum. Or God is a hidden mechanism within the universe that dictates the workings of the universe. Atheists may like this answer, and if we are fleshy robotic philosophical zombies that can only deduce and think and act as our brains and genetic coding instruct us, yes this answer that God is merely the basic physical laws that dictates the more complicated mechanisms of the universe should be sufficient. So, we’re done right? Wrong, we are far from done.

Unfortunately, we are not fleshy robotic philosophical zombies that can only deduce and think and act as our brains and genetic coding instruct us. We are more than that, we are conscious beings that can go beyond our supposed genetic coding. We have free will, we have feelings, we have personal problems. We are more than robots. And so, we enter the problem of consciousness. Refer to my previous essay about consciousness. The problem here is that we human beings have consciousness. So, to say that a conscious being is dictated by an unconscious being is ludicrous. It’s like saying we are going to be overruled by computers, the difference between us and those metallic boards is that we have free will and we don’t merely act by our organic programming, while those computers, act based on the programming we created. And we see that consciousness is superior to unconsciousness. So, what does that mean for us?

It is impossible for us to prove that there is more than one conscious being, as there would be problems as my essay had mentioned, just read it if you’re confused. Our conclusion there is there is only one consciousness in the entire existence. And to surmise this, what is God? Exactly, God is that consciousness. Now let’s talk about religion again. Consciousness is something universal, that spans the entire world regardless of culture or geography. As such, God too is something universal, you can not describe God with just one particular culture such as the Jews, the Christians, or the Arabs. Which is why to only find salvation in the identity of Jesus Christ is a ridiculous idea. As the identity of Jesus Christ is merely one part of God, and not the whole. Now let’s move on to the further explanations of God.

Since there is only one conscious being and that conscious being is God, who is God? Does that mean everyone here is God? Does it mean “I” (not the author, but general “I”, look back to previous essay) am God? And which of the humans here possess true consciousness? We need to answer first, whether there is only one conscious being and all others are philosophical zombies, or there is only one conscious being but it encompasses everything and everyone, that everyone is part of this same consciousness. To answer this, we must understand the true nature of time. Many people view time as something that is fixed, constant, and linear. However, that is simply untrue, as many scientific experiments has found, and I’ll give my personal opinion on time.

Time for me is the arrangement and flow of the instances of space. Let me elaborate. Time as we know is divided into several units. In a shorter amount of time, less events can happen. In a longer amount of time, more events can happen. Such as how in one second, the equivalent vibrations of the Caesium atom has happened, but in one minute, sixty times of such vibrations has happened. Now, let’s say there is the infinitesimally smallest unit of time, which scientifically is called the Planck time, but let’s call it the moment. Tell me this, is there two moments, where nothing has changed? It may be hard with the observable universe, but what if the universe is just one small room with only atom. And the smallest distance possible in that room is a centimeter. So is it possible, for there be two moments in that room where the atom remains in the exact same place. Say in moment 1 it is in cm 1, and in moment 2, it is still in cm 1, is that possible? I believe not. This means, that each moment or Planck time is actually a separate instance of space where between each instances, there is a change in something, even if it is infinitesimally small.

Imagine the flow time as a flipbook. When you open a certain page, all of the other pages still exist right? This means that everything is happening at the same “time”, because there is no “time”, merely our consciousness moving through the different instances of space. The same can be said for other people, they are actually our consciousness as well, but from a different instance of space, if you can say so. And what rule dictates that once we die, we must reincarnate to another timeframe? Perhaps we can reincarnate into the same time as our previous body, but into another body. Look at this analogy, imagine right now you’re in the book of yourself, and you have a friend, you can interact with the book of your friend. But then you finish the book, and proceed to read the book of your friend, interacting with the book that was yourself. And where is God in all of this? Well God is that consciousness, but since God is omnipresent through time and space, God can be a person that declares God as non-existent and as a weird creature and as the central intelligence controlling everything at the same time. Then why have evil and so and so? In my opinion, that is simply the nature of existence.

Then why is not all iterations of the consciousness “Godlike”? My opinion is that God is actually the ultimate incarnation of the consciousness, one that has overcome all materialistic obstacles. So while we pray to God, we will become God, at a certain instance of space that we desire. As such, each iteration is a stage towards becoming God. Some iterations are more similar to God than the others. And what about morality and so on? That’s irrelevant here, I’m only trying to discuss about the existence of God, not the details of it. As a consequence, God exists as the consciousness that encompasses and envelops everything, including, paradoxically, those who deny such consciousness to exist. As such, atheism is false, just not in the way most religious people expect it to be. And also religion does not accurately describe God as it is too attached to tradition and culture which are not universal at all. The end.