Hi everyone.
Today I was feeling very frustrated and sad and some moments got really unbearable. In these moments some thoughts often emerge and add to this sense of melancholy, you can’t help but ask yourself these questions: Why should we suffer? Why is there so much amount of unnecessary sufferings that happen every goddamn day? You should only whatch the news or look around you to ask yourself these questions.
One thing that pisses me off even more is when I hear people talking about God and how you should thank God every day and this kind of stuff. Let me be honest with you, There is no reason to believe that this terrible world is created by a benevolent and loving God, if there was such a God he/she/it would never ever create this terrible and awful world, to me this idea is just inconcievable.
like many others, I was brought up a god worshiper, I was afraid of going to hell after my death! But as I grew up I finally realized that I was fooled and immediately abandoned this nonsense.
The so called problem of evil basically says that sufferings and evils, including rapes, wars, diseases and injustices we observe every single day, are logically irreconcilable with the exsistence of a perfectly good God. So the conclusion is that this world is just what it is, we have evolved in this way and God is only a fancy created by ancient humans who didn’t know any better.
Having said all this, let’s say just for the sake of the argument that there may be some god or gods, but as mentioned above, this God cannot be perfectly good. So either the creator of the universe is an indifferent and cold and callous entity, or it is indeed an evil God or the Satan himself!
Okay, I don’t want to defend this concept, because like I said there is no evidence of any God whatsoever. However, I think that the belief in an evil or careless God is more consistent and coherent compared to the belief in an all loving deity.
This idea of a bad and unjust creator is not new at all, here are for example some similar viewpoints concerning the attributes of a supposed God preached by some ancient thinkers:
Gnosticism:
In early Christianity, when it was just an infant, there was a group of Christians who had a dualistic view about the world, meaning that they believed there are in fact two opposing deities, one an evil God called Demiurge who has created this material world which is full of darkness and imperfection, and a benevolent one who rules over the spiritual world and has actually sent Jesus Christ to fight evil. Acoording to Gnostics, we should deny this material world created by the evil God by abstaining from reproduction, because bringing a child to the realm of darkness will imprison and contaminate their souls. They were true Antinatalist, one could claim!
As you can see, this worldview is so different from orthodox monotheistic Christianity, so unfortunately, Gnostics were later considered heretics and eventually went extinct. But this is apparently the fate of all great philosophies, in this foul hellish earth, stupid beliefs are destined to be popular and widespread, not coherent and tenable ones.
Bertrand Russell, the 20th century British philosopher, in his famous essay Why I’m not a Christian has a very interesting opinion about the long forgotten Gnostics that I’d like to share with you:
Marcion:
This early Christian had also a similar view and advocated
non-procreation in order to oppose the malevolent creator of this world whom he considered to be the Old Testament God of Jews who is indeed portrayed as jealous and malicious.
Manichaeism:
The persian prophet مانی also preached a dualistic worldview, he gathered the wisdom of Buddhism, Gnosticism and other available philospohies of his time together, but sadly his interesting doctrines are long forgotten. I hope we as persians would appreciate this philosophy more.
So, as I showed, Misotheism or Hatred of God goes back to ancient times, I don’t hold their view, yet still I highly admire their ingenuity and wisdom and I definitely prefer their beliefs to Abrahamic religions. They were wise enough to see the unjustifiable misery and suffering in life and could not accept that it is created by a perfectly good God, no, the true God (if it exsists) could not have any role in creating this godforsaken world, it is totally impossible!
Whoever or whatever has created this universe I despise him, I hate him and would never worship him, I also have no respect for people believing in this God and admiring him, the creator of this material world is surely a despicable being who has made and allowed all these innumerable and unnecessary sufferings for all poor sentient beings.
I would like to leave you guys with a beautiful poem by خیام that is relevat to this topic and sums it up very well:
گر بر فلکم دست بدی چون یزدان
برداشتمی من این فلک را ز میان
از نو فلکی دگر چنان ساختمی
کازاده بکام دل رسیدی آسان.
Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire
Would not we shatter it to bits–and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire
This one is the difference between me and "you"
(Perception and jodging) I really can’t take life easy. I guess dear