Some years ago I republished 'The GOD Soliloquy' as a paperback on Amazon. Some excerpts from it are given below to whet the appetite of those who do dare to question traditional beliefs.
Let me start with a little story:
The Pastor and the Farmer (A story about God and Co-Creation)
A church pastor was driving along a country road when he saw a picturesque little farm with a lovely garden, many farm animals and a large barn. Admiring the scene, he stopped his car and walked up to the farmer who was driving a small tractor. The farmer shut off the engine and the pastor said to him:
“Sir, you have a beautiful place here. You sure have been blessed by God!”
The farmer replied: “Yes, I sure have been blessed by God."
Then he added: "But you should have seen this place 4 years ago, when God was looking after it!”
The truth and the moral of the story above is that God does not and will not do the gardening for us! God only provides the raw materials (such as the world and our life), together with the tools (such as our mind, our body, and our will, together with the Universal Mind).
It is up to us to use these tools to create or realize what we want. That is called Co-Creation, i.e. using the powers of our mind and body to make what we really desire to come into being. Whether what we create becomes a beautiful garden or an overgrown mess of weeds, is left entirely to us!
No amount of ritual praying (with bribes, offerings and sacrifices or even ultimatums to stop worshiping God), will get God to come down and do our job for us!
Unfortunately, this very fallacy (that God will be moved by our tears, our bribes and sacrifices to come and intercede on our behalf), is what all religions proclaim and get their followers to believe blindly.
I have pointed this out six years ago in my book “The GOD Soliloquy” from which the following is excerpted:
GOD and Worship
“I, your GOD, do NOT need you to worship me. What I would like is for you to use your powers to create a great life for yourself and your fellow humans.
"To this end I have given you the power to understand and exploit the unchanging principles I have used to create your world. You can use the physical principles of electricity, magnetism, gravity, air pressure and so on to create new things. You can use the psychic principles of the mind to create the type and quality of life you want.
"You do not have to physically torture yourself (walking barefoot on hot coals, pricking yourself with needles, or whipping yourself, etc.) in order to appease me. You do not have to bribe me: promising to light candles, or give offerings, or any of the myriad things the priests ask you to do! Neither can you blackmail me, by threatening to stop worshiping me.
"Why would I your GOD (who created all things) want you to give me back some of it as ‘peace offerings’ or bribes? Do you really think that because you do these things, I will come and intercede for you? No! I do not do individual miracles! That would not be fair or just to any one of you.
"BUT I have given each one of you something even better – the power to create your own miracles! Each one of you can create your very own miracles.
"You don’t have to pray to me to go after what you truly desire.You don’t need my permission to achieve greatness. You already have my permission! In fact, I would LOVE to see you succeed. You don’t have to stoop so low as to bribe me with flowers, or bunches of bananas, or sacrifices of goats or chickens or cows.
"Just go for your dream! Believe that if I have given you a special talent, or desire – then you are meant to go for it. In the process of reaching for your dream, you will find the happiness, the growth, and the joy that you are always seeking!" - The GOD Soliloquy
A few years ago, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we have clear proof that “God does NOT intercede on your behalf”, no matter how much you pray, or to which god you pray to!
Prayer will not protect you from the pandemic, but science (created by humans who use their God-given tools of the mind, will-power etc.) and common sense can.
You just have to understand how the disease is transmitted and take the proper steps to protect yourself (such as by social distancing, washing hands and wearing a mask in crowded places). You can also protect yourself by taking proper nutrition to enhance your Immune System.
The clusters of COVID-19 infection begun at religious gatherings worldwide is undeniable proof that we cannot be protected, just by claiming that our particular god will protect us!
Clear evidence of this, is the situation in the so-called most developed country in the world, which has the highest number of COVID-19 cases as well as the highest number of deaths due to the pandemic in the world!
This, in spite of the fact that the President and his cult-like followers blindly believed that they would be protected by their God or by the President himself! Unfortunately, blatant denial of scientific facts (and removing those who do know science from political power) will not make any difference to the situation.
Even if all his millions of followers were to pray daily to their particular god (but refuse to follow the simple scientific steps needed for protection), their God will NOT come down and make the pandemic disappear!
The pandemic will takes its daily toll and keep increasing until people take action to protect themselves and create a safe and effective remedy.
Because we have been given the great power of co-creation and the free will to choose our actions, it is we who are responsible for the results. As the Spider Man comics state: “With great power comes great responsibility!”
But we humans habitually try to avoid responsibility and try to blame everything on other people, circumstances, on fate, karma or even on God. Then we ask plaintively: "Why does God allow bad things to happen?"
The truth is that God does NOT allow 'bad things' or 'good things' to happen. This point will be discussed in my next post entitled "Does God allow bad things to happen?"