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From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman)
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Subject: The truth about God
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 20:59:16 EDT
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	Beth Chirsty, in reply to my earlier article, which I just
accidentally reposted (sorry), said that if that article wasn't satire,
``then something evil sure hurt this boy.'' She is most certainly right.
That something was and is God. The same evil monster who infests all our
lives with pain and frustration. A few other people have sent mail to me
complimenting me on my ``parody'' article.

	I don't want to disappoint any of you, but that article was most
definitely no parody at all. There exists a God, a hideous evil damager
monster, who uses His entropic force to shatter everything from individual
human lives to the universe at large.

	A perfect example: in the last article I mentioned the maxim about
how much easier it is to destroy than to create. This by itself is proof of
the existence of an unbalanced force, called entropy by scientists, which
is really the hateful will of the Damager-God. Another well worn maxim is
Murphy's Law. Among the famous corollaries to this is ``if you bring your
umbrella, it won't rain.'' Of course, the converse is that if you forget
your umbrella, it's almost sure to rain, given the right conditions of
course. Ever wonder why this is also a truism? Clearly it is because the
Damager-God is thwarted from His pleasurable act of causing you harm if
you have brought along protection from that harm. Naturally, another of
Murphy's (God's) corollaries takes effect in these circumstances: if it's
not one thing, it's another. God can always find a way to cause misery,
no matter how prepared you try to be, and He always will.

	Christians nowadays make a very big deal about prophesies of the
end of the world found in the Bible, claiming that ours is the generation
in which the prophesies come true. Have any of them ever stopped to think
about why those prophesies are so accurate? About what the source of
information was? Who else, but the Damager-God, could provide such
prophetic information? Of course the prophesies are accurate, He's only
telling you in advance what He plans to do! All the horrible catastrophes
He will beseige the Earth with at the ``Judgment Day.''

	Have any of these Christians thought about the role of Christianity
in these prophesies? To me it is quite clear. The prophesies speak of the
Devil (really God himself) having reign of the Earth during the millenia
after the death of Christ. Look at what religion has been the dominant
force in the world, through conquest, crusade, and colonialism since that
time. Yes, you've got it, Christianity! Christ was the Antichrist! Just as
surely as God is Satan.

	If you doubt that God is really Satan and vice versa, think about
this. Think about how terribly convenient it is to be able to point a
finger and say ``he did it'' when you do something bad. Since God does so
many bad things so often, including natural disasters, diseases, fomenting
hatred and war, etc. all the while claiming to be the ultimate good, being
able to say ``Satan did it'' must come in real handy. The Damager-God is a
listless shirker of responsibility. Notice how He didn't come down to Earth
himself. No, He sent his son to mislead the people and then suffer the
pains of crucifixion. This surely sounds more like the handiwork of some
sleazy movie Mafioso (sending His son to do the dirty work) and not the
awesome majestic benevolent God so often imagined.

	I am truly shocked that so many people thought my article was some
sort of satire. The preponderence of evidence makes it painfully obvious
that God does exist, and that He is one evil motherf*cker. He has built
into us a wish to see Him as a great and loving father, even though He
clearly is nothing of the sort. He uses this against us at every opportunity.

	I must say that the near unanimity of opinion that my article was
intended to be satirical frightens me a great deal. It means God has a
stranglehold on us all, believers or not. Even those among the atheists
and agnostics who responded to me thought the idea of a Damager-God was an
amusing satirical ploy at best. It's as if they were completely blinded by
the way this explanation of the universe answers many questions previously
unanswered by either the benevolent god explanation or the no god
explanation. The explanation fits, it makes sense, it explains the nature
of things better than any other. This thing science calls entropy manifests
itself in ways that can only be explained as deliberate, thoughtful,
malevolent action of a conscious deity. There is no evidence for a directly
opposite benevolent creative force to counteract entropy's destructiveness.
People talk about ``nature taking its course'', but certainly it is unable
to do this. God, the willful force of entropy and destruction and evil,
permeates nature and corrupts it beyond recognition.

	Some months ago, Dan Boscovich spoke of objective proof for his
beliefs. His ``proofs'' were a sham, and everyone from Hubeynz and Rosen
to Ellis and Wingate knew it. Yet he continues to believe along with many
others. Compare his ``objective proof'' to mine. My explanation answers
questions about the real world. Boscovich's explanation, apparently
borrowed from other Christian apologists, simply forces his ``good God''
explanation in any way it can, even where it doesn't make sense. A famous
Christian book currently available is called ``Why Bad Things Happen to
Good People''. I assume Christians have some contorted explanation for
this. Surely the simpler and far more fathomable explanation is that a
bad God does bad things to good people, because He likes it. Ever wonder
why good things always happen to bad people? Maybe because they act as
agents of God. By being bad, they provide God with more opportunities to
infect the world with His evil wanton destruction and pain. Thus they are
rewarded.

	Rich Rosen is right when he calls you all wishful thinkers. The
evidence is clear. It's staring you right in the face. But you choose to
think of the world as being run by a ``good'' God rather than a ``bad''
one, because it makes you more comfortable and less frightened. Yet Rosen
and his fellow atheists and materialists don't see the writing on the wall
either. When faced with willful destructiveness eating away at the world,
the scientific types throw up their hands and say ``that's entropy'' or
something like that. Surely willful evil cannot be disposed of by simply
saying it's a natural force of some sort. Such evil can only be attributed
to an evil heinous Damager-God. The one that millions of people worship
and pray to daily as the almighty force of good, taken in by his
manipulation and deception.
-- 
Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories
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