The Gospel According to Acharya S
Speaking for God
"Have you not seen a delusive vision, and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, 'Says the Lord,' although I
have not spoken?"
Ezekiel 13:7
How many times have we heard some fat, loud-mouthed preacher of a type sputter and howl, "God says this, and God says that?"
How many more times do we have to hear that blather until we wake up and realize that nobody speaks for God, not a man dressed in black or in
robes waving a black-covered book, not a man wearing a turban shouting "Jihad!," not a man of any kind?
Omnipresence Has No Spokespeople
The point is that even to these people "God" is supposedly omnipresent and, as
such, is not, cannot be and never will be contained in one book, no matter how many times the cheerleaders of that book threaten eternal
damnation and punishment. If "God" is omnipresent - a device conveniently used by these selfsame "preachers" to scare people into behaving, e.g.,
"God is watching you at all times" - then "God" is contained in everything, and that means every book, every person,
every animal and every rock. That is the definition of omnipresence. In case the religionists still don't get that,
let's spell it out:
"omnipresent : present in all places at all times" Webster's
Case closed. It is not possible for an omnipresent divinity to be here but not there. It is impossible for an omnipresent
deity to be absent from someplace. That is the bottom line. Therefore - paradoxically to the notion that arrogant bozos who pretend to speak for
God are fulla-da-shit - every book and every creature that claims to be speaking for God must be right, even those that say God
is an utterly bogus concept designed to enslave the human race. Since God is omnipresent, God is also speaking when Bertrand Russell says:
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite
unworthy of free men. When you hear people debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems
contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings."
Since God is omnipresent, i.e., present in all places at all times, and there is no place that God is not present, then "God"
has also said, through the mouth of Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"We must get rid of the Christ, we must get rid of that Christ."
Or of Thomas Carlyle, who said, "If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ."
Or of Nietzsche, who signed "Anti-Christ" after his name. His point was that Christ was a humiliation on humanity, always
turning his cheek and shepherding us stupid "lost sheep."
Disagree, Go to Hell
Those who defend their mythological superman, Jesus Christ, and his fictitious father in heaven,
constantly reproach such statements by angrily spewing the familiar, "God says...!" This is the only proper defense these parrots have,
especially that "God says" those who disagree with such upholders of the faith are destined to go to hell. Indeed,
anytime one dares to disagree with such a self-righteous egoist as a priest, minister, imam or preacher, one is
immediately pronounced as being in league with the devil and on the way to H-E-double toothpicks. Such is the
mentality of the one who pretends to speak for God.
Those who pretend to speak to the exclusion of everyone else for an omnipresent God, such as those who purport that their god
wrote a book a few thousand years ago (as if "He" is now illiterate, mute, dead, disinterested, or just plain lazy),
are merely displaying ego deformities of a longstanding nature, stemming from some sick programming received as a child. Those who think that
only their silly, narrowminded, ignorant and uneducated brains can interpret God - by globbing onto a ridiculous, outdated and highly specious
document that has been added to, deleted from and forged in every respect - are indeed mentally dis-eased. There is no kind way to put it.
Everybody Speaks for "God"
The last word is this - even throwing aside any "New Age I AM God" affirmations - if God is omnipresent, whatever God is, then
everybody speaks for God, and nobody speaks for God, in the sense that God is something "out there" to which only priests and
the lot hold the key. All those who pretend to speak exclusively for a god that has no location and no fixed point but is everywhere present and
occupies all forms imaginable, are either throwbacks in the evolutionary chain or suffer from mental illness. The next time somebody shouts, "God
says...blah, blah, blah," just remind them equally as loudly and obnoxiously that it is their own cracked ego speaking, not God.
The Gospel According to Acharya S
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