WHERE IS "GOD" ?
There is not a day that a new calamity does not hit a group of people, destroying their lives and bringing much pain and misery. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, plagues and incurable diseases every day claim their own share of devastation's and deaths. "Where is God?" is the unheard cry of the victims of these “acts of God”
God as described in the Semitic religions, is a compassionate, omnipotent, all hearing all seeing god. If that were true, then a god, who witnesses the suffering of his creatures and does not respond to their cry for help, is an unjust, callous, and cruel god. Thousands of children are dying every day around the world by droughts, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and other natural disasters or as we call them the "acts of God". The victims of these natural “holocausts” cry in desperation, pray with anguish, weep in silence, yet God does not care or is unaware that they need help. What god is this God? Where is his justice? What happened to his claim of being the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful?
This very fact proves:
a) God is not hearing the cry of his creatures,
b) he is incapable of helping them or
c) he is a sadistic merciless, ruthless, tyrant that enjoys watching the suffering of his creatures just as Roman Emperors enjoyed watching people being devoured by lions or killed in coliseums.
Professor Paul Davis,Templeton prize winner for his book-'The mind of god' has quite logically exhorted people to discard primitive religious concepts. "In the popular imagination,god is a sort of cosmic magician,who sits somewhere beyond the sky and from time to time works miracles. As a scientist,i find the very notion of miracles repugnant,while the concept of god who is just another force at work in the universe,whimsically moving atoms about,strikes me as childish.I would rather suppose that the laws of physics operate unfailingly throughout the physical world."
In a Persian couplet,the poet inquires:-
"I do evil and you punish me with evil;
pray,what is the difference between you and me ?"
Meaningful question indeed !
There is not a day that a new calamity does not hit a group of people, destroying their lives and bringing much pain and misery. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, plagues and incurable diseases every day claim their own share of devastation's and deaths. "Where is God?" is the unheard cry of the victims of these “acts of God”
God as described in the Semitic religions, is a compassionate, omnipotent, all hearing all seeing god. If that were true, then a god, who witnesses the suffering of his creatures and does not respond to their cry for help, is an unjust, callous, and cruel god. Thousands of children are dying every day around the world by droughts, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and other natural disasters or as we call them the "acts of God". The victims of these natural “holocausts” cry in desperation, pray with anguish, weep in silence, yet God does not care or is unaware that they need help. What god is this God? Where is his justice? What happened to his claim of being the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful?
This very fact proves:
a) God is not hearing the cry of his creatures,
b) he is incapable of helping them or
c) he is a sadistic merciless, ruthless, tyrant that enjoys watching the suffering of his creatures just as Roman Emperors enjoyed watching people being devoured by lions or killed in coliseums.
Professor Paul Davis,Templeton prize winner for his book-'The mind of god' has quite logically exhorted people to discard primitive religious concepts. "In the popular imagination,god is a sort of cosmic magician,who sits somewhere beyond the sky and from time to time works miracles. As a scientist,i find the very notion of miracles repugnant,while the concept of god who is just another force at work in the universe,whimsically moving atoms about,strikes me as childish.I would rather suppose that the laws of physics operate unfailingly throughout the physical world."
In a Persian couplet,the poet inquires:-
"I do evil and you punish me with evil;
pray,what is the difference between you and me ?"
Meaningful question indeed !
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