The Gospel According to Acharya S
Belief in God
"Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not
join hands every Sunday, singing,"Yes, gravity is real! I will have
faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up,
up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would
think they were pretty insecure about it.
Dan Barker
Contrary to what most people think, belief in
God is not virtuous or righteous, nor is it a sign of intelligence
or integrity. Belief is generally indicative of ignorance and
unawareness, despite what so-called religionists and moralists
attempt to depict. Belief in God does little good at all; in fact,
it is the cause of an atrocious percentage of wars and conflicts
humanity has fought over the millennia. Nearly every group that has
fought in war has believed in a god who was on its particular side.
Each cult or faction which has won has
believed that its god provided it with the win; and each that has
lost has believed that its god abandoned it.
As it turns out, it is egotism to believe that
some god person is on your side and opposes your enemy. Every side
or individual in a conflict or debate believes this conceit, and
each is wrong.
Belief Proves Nothing--Truth Must Be Known
A believer's faith in the anthropomorphic god
has never made "him" real. The only way believers can make
God real to any degree is by killing
and/or converting others to their egotistical and ethnocentric, racist and
sexist interpretation of God. No matter how hard you may believe
in your version of the formless, genderless, raceless divinity,
this fervor will not make it so. If such a god were real, there
would be no need for belief and faith. Belief is irrelevant and
neither proves nor serves anything.
In reality, the way to make God real is to
know God, and knowing God will reveal
that God could not possibly be an old white man sitting on a throne
up in a fictitious heaven pretending to rule the universe.
This assumption is utterly impossible.
The knowing of "God" comes through a merging of
one's individual consciousness with that of universal
consciousness, the union of one's own mind with the mind of the
"creator." The creator is revealed as being creativity itself. It
is simply the quality of creativity, and not a
person. The "creator" is the aspect of the mind that
allows for creativity. It is the mechanism by which the universe
creates life and perpetuates itself. The Creator has no gender, no
form and no race or ethnicity. It is not a human being, as much as
the meaningless and petty little human would wish to make of it.
Knowing God as the creative life force behind all creation, instead
of a silly white male human being seated in a castle in the clouds,
is the ultimate freedom of perspective. It is only in the knowing,
however, and not the believing, that this
freedom of perspective comes into being.
In this respect, and because this formless,
genderless and raceless truth exists with or without human belief,
it is positively useless to believe in God. This life force will
have existence everywhere at all times whether or not anyone
believes in it. It is like the sun. You do not need to believe in
the sun. You can see it and feel it. You are certain that it
exists. Even if you did not believe in it, it would still exist. It
surely does not care if you don't believe in it.
Belief Causes Turmoil
Blind belief, whether in God or anything else,
is not only ridiculous and immature, it is dangerous, as is
evidenced by the countless murders and atrocities committed by believers over the
millennia, and by violent acts that will continue to be committed
so long as humans think it virtuous and righteous to believe in an
anthropomorphic god who is separate from themselves. Such an
opinion is not virtuous at all; on the contrary, it is lowly and
base, and the mark of a poor intellect.
Belief in God is not a sign of piety and
godliness but of ignorance and incomplete realization and evolution
of consciousness. No person drowned in belief and delusion can be
whole, can be his or her own authority. Any such person is
controllable by outside authority, cannot think for him or herself,
and does not move on his or her own authenticity. He or she is not
autonomous. He or she is not free. Such a person is not in tune
with the force of creation and is therefore not creative. The
center of creativity of a believer is clogged up and closed
down.
The intelligent person strives to
know "God," rather than settling for
childish and naive belief in another's interpretation of a formless
divinity. And knowing is science. This attainment of
knowledge may done through study, contemplation, meditation and the
ultimate experience of perfect inner silence, and not through any
belief whatsoever. There is no god person who needs your belief or
defense. It is not possible to insult or blaspheme that which does
not exist; hence, warlike and violent defense of your limited
concept of "the divine" is retarded and unconscious. Indeed, the
only "blasphemy" is treating real, living human beings like
pathetic, born-in-sin pieces of garbage while exalting an invisible
and imaginary giant man in the sky. There is certainly nothing
righteous in this behavior. What is righteous is perceiving the
entire cosmos as sublime and marvelous.
The Gospel According to
Acharya S
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