Sunday, December 22, 2013

Creationism is Blasphemy

There is an entire movement comprised of passionate believers that insist that human beings were simply flashed into existence by an entity with the power to do such things, apparently who used Himself as a template in some way for us. (We are made in His image.)

(The idea that we are somehow less powerful "copies of the Almighty raises a rich set of arguments all it's own. For example, does God have a penis, and thus, a sex drive? In that case, does God have moods, like horniness? And if he is "slave" to that impulse, which in itself seems to be blasphemy because how could the Almighty be slave to ANYTHING? But say He was, it is absolutely necessary to imagine exactly Who or What God fucks! Does He come to earth and troll inferior humans, fuck them, and then retreat to His Throne, dick limp and spent? Could THIS be GOD? Again, a subject requiring its own article.)

That literal "in His image" stuff put aside for the moment, look closely at humans. They are prone to thousands of weaknesses, failing eyesight and hearing, weird emotional problems, physical weakness...doesn't it stand to reason that even if God could not make a MORALLY perfect creature, a concept addressed in the Bible by the Flood, where God saw fit to brutally exterminate all of his creation, the good along with the bad, and since he used the mechanism of a "flood", one has to wonder why he decided to murder innocent giraffes along with EVIL giraffes, and yet let all evil fish go by without even a disturbance?

And if He decided things had gotten so out of hand that He needed to scorch the Earth to eradicate the possibility that evil may lurk in the most pious and moral of man and beast, why didn't He reserve the right to do it again if He deemed it necessary? Why does the Bible say to us that He apparently prostrated Himself to Man, promising to never do that again? If He decided it was a bad idea, wouldn't it be sufficient for God to simply decide not to do it again?

And why terrify the good along with the evil by using the blunt instrument of a flood? If He had the power to create Man with a command, could he not simply command everyone dead? If He has a Judgment Day anyway, the bad guys are surely going to pay, why make everyone suffer so horrendously? And then apologize like a schoolboy who spray-painted the word "fuck" on the wall of the school? He's GOD, and that is unarguable humiliating, one might fairly assert that, in that moment of promise not to do it again, He raised Man above Himself and, as such, committed the ultimate blasphemy HIMSELF.

But back to Man. Visit any hospital and you will see the shabbiness of His handiwork all around you. Screw that, just walk down a city street and you can see that, as a construction, Man doesn't come close to Toyota Camry in design. A Camry doesn't get colon cancer, or even tinnitus.

For anyone to call himself holy in the sense that he hews to the word of God, and claim that the true explanation for the existence of human beings is that God made them is to hurl an open and grievous insult to The Lord of the Cosmos. What could anyone do to better secure a space in Hell for eternity than to blame God for the bullshit craftsmanship that is Man.

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