God Is Impotent Or Non Existent?

[Solitary]

If God is all powerful, He is either not all powerful, don't care, or non existent, by the law of contradiction.

By Dennis Augustine
Dear Yahweh,

Our working relationship is not what it used to be. My parents absolutely worshiped and adored you, so out of respect for them, I feel that it’s only right to explain to you my thought process re what I’m about to tell you. I’m sure you can see what’s coming next and have anticipated it for a while. If not, why not?

We communicated often at the start, then less and less. Some years ago I noticed that certain duties which are part of your job description were being neglected or mismanaged. I’ve called you several times, leaving messages asking you to address these issues but you have repeatedly refused to answer my calls.

When my parents first handed this life over to me you had already been in charge for a long, long time. They told me that you were the family’s closest friend and knew more about the life business than anyone else. They told me to trust you no matter what, so I let your apparent negligence slide, remembering how they told me to trust you.

In deference to them I decided overlook your unexplained behavior considering all of the fine work that I thought you were doing in other areas. The universe, after all, is pretty incredible, my life could have been worse and beer was definitely a nice touch. I am afraid however, that my patience with you has come to an end due to relatively recent information that has been bought to my attention. I know you’re kind of old school so let me break it down for you.

I have followed with great interest the interim findings of the ongoing Public Inquiry into the Workings of the Universe (a.k.a. “The Sciences”) for some time now. As I became more familiar with these findings I began to see that much of the work that you have taken responsibility forâ€"the work that really was the only thing that prevented me from firing you long agoâ€"was not your doing at all.

In fact, I learned that it’s been known for centuries that pretty much everything that I credited you with had actually been fully outsourced to the universe since the very beginning but that you and your cronies suppressed that information, hiding it from my family and countless others, with tireless zeal. If only you had applied that same level of devotion to your actual jobs I wouldn’t be writing this letter now.

You lead us to believe that you lovingly and purposefully created our amazing bodies. That, I learned, was actually Evolution. You say that you created the universe. I should have suspected that you were full of it when you had the audacity to say you did it by the sheer force of your own will out of nothing at all in just six days. I’ll give you this: you sure did show some balls in demanding a day off for the good job you did! By the way, quality assurance results on the universe are in and it’s not all that well “designed” after all. Yeah, the universe was caused by the big bang.

The “acts of God”? Natural disasters. (I never understood why you wanted to take credit for those), love, compassion, justice, community? That was all us; it had nothing to do with you. I wish you had told me yourself and I didn’t have to find this out from other people. Boy, I was so gullible! Oh well, you’ve tricked better people than I so I’ll forgive myself for falling for it. Well, enough is enough. Something has to be done about the situation.

Bio: Dennis Augustine is a former Pentecostal minister who had doubts in seminary as he learned about the problematic history of the biblical cannon. His faith in God died a slow painful death for years. When his sister murdered her own children there was no more denying it. Today, Dennis works as a software developer and business analyst in Toronto, Canada. He speaks out passionately about rational thought and the psychological and social impacts of religious faith and hopes to contribute to research in these areas in the years ahead

Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rationaldoubt/2015/01/dear-yahweh-youre-fired-an-open-termination-letter-for-god/#ixzz3RdayHH7o

Solitary

[MagetheEntertainer]

I've always said that if there is a God that he must basically be like a dead beat dad.  God set off the big bang and then we never heard from him again.  He's probably cheating on us with one of the parallel universes

[Green Bottle]

GD Post Solitary...........passing it on.

[Munch]

I've always said that if there is a God that he must basically be like a dead beat dad.  God set off the big bang and then we never heard from him again.  He's probably cheating on us with one of the parallel universes

He's probably avoiding us because he left the pilot light on while the gas was running.

Also mage I never realized before, but your avatar name is quite literally breaking the fourth wall ^^

[pr126]

All gods, all religions ever existed were man made.

Gods exist, because we create them in our own image.
That is why gods are always anthropomorphic.

Some are nastier than others, taking on the personality of that deity's "inventor". (Allah, the rock god of the Kaaba).

There were thousands of gods, most of them are already "dead" , no longer worshiped.

[Solomon Zorn]

I would love to give that letter to a Pentecostal friend I have. She is not at all open to such things though.

By the way, did you come up with that title before or after reading my Poem? http://www.solomonzorn.com/impotent-omnipotent.html
Just curious, because it's the first and last lines verbatim. Not that I have proprietary rights to the phrasing, much less the concept, I'm just wondering if my writing inspired someone.