Why Christianity is so ridiculous

By all reasonable scientific estimates the universe was created 13 billion years ago and the earth around five billion. Obviously these are ballpark figures but you get the idea – a very, very long time ago. God created the universe then, for 8 billion years, he either decided, or was waiting to, create the earth where human beings can live.

When the earth was created it spent its first 4.5 billion years as a useless volcanic rock with no life, no sky, just molten fire destroying everything it touched. Then it began to cool and eventually just a few million years ago (roughly 12.9 billion years after the creation pof the universe) the first life was created as a single-celled bacteria-like amoeba living at the bottom of the ocean. This amoeba breeds and its ancestors evolve and adapt to their surroundings in the most brutal and morally neutral process ever discovered – evolution. All the way through this process when millions of species are being wiped out by adaptation god sits in his sky unmoved by the plight of his evolveing creature. But then a mere 2010 years ago he, after 13 billion(!!) years, decides to intervene in the world he has created. He, seemingly, arbritraly picks a half-evolved mammal known, we now call a homo sapient be his chosen stage of evolution in which to intervene.

Human beings covered the globe 2000 years ago - the Chinese could read and write, parts of Asia were making forays into medicine and the arts and Europe was dominated by the greatest empire ever known. The Romans and the Greeks had been philosophising for centuries but, naturally, god chose not to approach these ‘fancy’ civilisations with their intelligence and ability to record information. He wanted his ‘son’ (who is also god and his own father and a ghost – that is one fucked up family) to be born into an illiterate, superstisious, paranoid tribe of ferocious backwards warriors who thought brutality and human sacrifice was natural. This was where he chose to, eventually, tell his creation – the universe – he existed.

But he was not satisfied with just telling the universe, manifested in the form of a half-evolved mammalian lifeform, that he existed, why would you be? He commands his creation to worship him everyday, he demands temples be built in his honour, he demands entire lives to be dominated by worship of Him. Is god so insecure that his creation must worship him or he will trap their souls in an underground fireball, with a fire-breathing dragon who is the most evil force that can exist – the devil. Of course the idea that half-evolved mammalian lifeforms, made entirely of stardust originating from the Big Bang 13 billion years ago have souls, is rather spurious and perhaps contestable but let’s go with it.

The insecure god then sacrifices his son (who is also god etc..) to take on the sins of the rest of the mammals he has become and takes over their sins. If one considers human beings flawed the ability for redemption is one of the most crucial features of life and one which on must cherish and strive towards. So, Mr Christ how dare you perform some kind of vicarious redemption for me – I’ll take responsibility for my own ‘sins’ and atone for them as I see fit. But, of course, it doesn’t matter what I think because god is omnipotent and has all human actions, thoughts, pre-life, afterlife under constant surveillance so you can never escape. This kind of dictatorial rule is extremely similar to modern day North Korea. The only difference being at least you can die in North Korea whereas with god that’s where the real torture and malevolence begins for eternity, for those who dared not worship him and obey his rules during their puny 70 years on this random sphere spinning through an enormous universe, through infinite dimensions and parallel existences. That seems rather harsh to me.

In the face of this evidence you believe there is a personal, loving god who knows you exist and cares for you then you are stupid, ignorant and a fool. We need evidence and it is going to take a hell of a lot to overturn the mountain of facts that make it so probable it’s almost certain there is no god.