by Star

“God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power.”

Robert G. Ingersoll

It is difficult to draw any ethical line when it comes to the idea and notion of God. It is amazing that some people try to rescue God when God is already considered as an omnipotent Supreme Being who is needless. Based on this underlying principle, God does not need His mortal creatures' efforts to defend Him in any case. So please leave God alone since He can defend Himself better than anybody else and has no need for any earthly lawyer.

I am writing this directly to God. And I hope He can hear me. I will be waiting for God's response to what I am going to charge Him with.

Most of us believe that an infamous person like Adolf Hitler is a real war criminal and spiteful. We believe that Hitler committed murder and human atrocities. If we could, we would prosecute Hitler and make him responsible for what he did. And of course that we would seek a capital punishment for his capital crimes. Undeniably, Hitler killed millions of innocent people just because they were not the way that he wanted them to be.

But wait a second! Hitler himself did not kill anybody directly with his own hands. He never pulled a trigger in an execution squad while aiming at innocent people. He never set up a notorious oven with his own hands. Hitler, himself, never released the deadly gas into the lethal gas chambers. Indeed, all the atrocities were done under his command and after his name by other human beings. However, we still make him accountable for what happened within five years of the Second World War; death upon death, misery upon misery, and suffering upon suffering.

How about God? How about centuries of war and atrocities done under His command and after His name? After all, God Himself never killed anybody with His own hands. God never pulled a trigger or made a bomb by Himself. But history is full of crusades and jihads after His almighty name with His almighty commands. To me, God is responsible for all the religious bloodshed in the human history, the same way that Adolf Hitler was responsible for five years of atrocities during the Second World War. I wish we could set up a judgment day for God; a trial in which God is going to explain what has been the rationale behind all these human bloodshed and suffering under His command. I am just wondering if God is going to command a believer to kill me for the above statements and allegations. It is hard not to remind myself of the fact that there is a Fetwa for Mr. Salman Rushdie, since Hazarath Imam Ruhallah al-Musavi al-Khomeini (RA) became God's lawyer and judge to defend Him against Mr. Rushdie's possession of free thought. Well, I guess God is powerful enough to challenge me on His own rather than crying out for His creatures' help and perhaps retribution. After all, God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and needless.

Humanity bless!

Star