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How Ignorance Equals God

Religion is the "belief" that our own ignorance of the universe -  how it works in every detail, why it exists at all, and where it came from -  is proof that we should therefore "believe" in the existence of a God that is not only solely responsible for creating it all, but who only hides from us any direct evidence of this fact, for our own good.

And in the same way this "God" ensures that all of our best scientific endeavors will never detect a single shred of evidence of its existence, in order to ensure that its "command" that we must love it more than anything else, including our own lives and even that of our own children (Abraham and Isaac), never intervenes in any of our squabbles for our "own good" as well.

And this is because protecting the inviolable sanctity of our own "free will" is apparently far more important to that God than maintaining world peace, no matter how many millions must perish to protect the former, and always in the name of pursuing the latter.

Simply put, religion uses our own ignorance as the surest proof of God. 


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