God's Plan

Introduction

This will be controversial and probably lose me a lot more friends, but that is life.

So What Is Going On?

I have no problem with people finding solace or comfort in religion, but as a child I saw some disgusting behaviour by the church, mainly getting money out of people and publicly shaming people who wouldn't pay or did not turn up for church.

When things go wrong I hear "It's part of God's plan" or "God moves in mysterious ways". Well in sixty-six years on this earth I have seen no sign of God's plan or any evidence of the existence of a God.

Often the argument is that you need to have faith, but to have faith I need something concrete to back it up. I have faith that my bus will turn up and my wages will be paid because I know there are mechanisms in place to make that happen, so I am ok to have faith in that.

But some supreme being that lets people be murdered for no reason and seems to be fine with famine, wars, and poverty. That means it is a cruel spiteful God or definitely not all-powerful.

I have known many priests and got on well with them because they told me that they had faith, but admitted they did not have proof. They actually put people and those in their care first.

If all war, hunger and poverty stopped then I could accept a beneficent God, but when you consider the wars that have been waged in the names of religion the indication that there is a caring God looks more than a little far-fetched.

A common argument used by Christians is to say “prove to me God doesn’t exist”. It’s a shift of the burden of proof. The burden is on Christians to prove that their claim that God exists, is correct.

That says it for me, I need hard evidence.

In my sixty-six years, I have seen none.

The teachings of Jesus were to care for people, especially those who were poor or sick, but you look at Christian Churches and the money is being spent on very impressive buildings, vestments, wine and good food often in areas where there is great poverty. Jesus would not have approved, look how he dealt with moneylenders in the temple.

Jesus may or may not have existed but he is definitely a focus for moral and caring behaviour which seems absent from the modern world and a lot of Christianity.

I recently heard the Bible described as The Goat Herders Guide to The Galaxy and remember this book was written two thousand years ago and is being continually revised. It is often cherry-picked to persecute people, again something Jesus would not have approved of.

So looping back to "God's Plan" where is it and what is it?

When I create a plan for anything, it is stuck to as far as I can and if there are any issues then I adjust it as required to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Given the state of the world, if God has a plan it is either a very bad one, or it has completely flown off the rails.

Bad and Evil people are given free rein to take advantage of those who don't have power and God lets that happen.

We're often told that Satan or Lucifer is the bad guy, but who was the one who drowned most of the world or killed all the babies in Egypt? It was not the Devil, it was God.

Conclusion

So I will go on living my life, with my faith in science and the care of people and keep wondering if we will ever see God's Plan.