Theist, Deist or Atheist

Is God a Theist, a Deist or, Is God an Atheist ?

If I can consider the aphorisms: Cogito, Ergo Sum, 

(I think, therefore I am,)

or Gnothi Seauton, (Know thyself), then I assume that the entity which one calls “God” may be able to pose to itself these same pithy sayings.

So, God, the Almighty, the All Powerful, the All Wise, the All Knowing, one might think, could stand a little examination, say, before a panel of Judges, who might well ask this and other questions:

“You claim that you created the Universe, and specifically we are talking about the planet called 'earth'.

Why did you not consider that the building blocks you used, might, if not properly supported, shift and move, causing stresses on the surface with disastrous results ? Results which would be most detrimental to the beings with which you populated this surface ? In fact, it has in the past and will in the future kill many hundreds of thousands of them in unpredictable tremors. May we just remind you of the most recent of your building failures: Amatrice, Umbria and Marche in Central Italy ?

Did you also not consider temperature changes, which will cause further disruptions due to fiery explosions ?”

The Psychologists among this panel of examiners, would probably chime in with some other embarrassing inquiries:

“The single, but multifaceted, creation, which you call 'mankind' seems to be afflicted with a suicidal bent of self annihilation. Why would you create a being which aims for the very opposite of creation, namely destruction ? Did you deliberately equip them with this sense of brutality which created, and continues to create, untold organized killings, called wars? Beginning at the earliest stages of this being's development until the present time? Are you taking particular pride in the fact that some of the worst of your creation bore, upon their belt buckles the inscription, "God with Us" ? And that, most recently, similar killers commence their killing spree with the call: "God is God and Mohammed is his prophet."

If we may consider this “mankind thing”, which you urge to love, admire, and respect you, as a single created entity, we come to no other conclusion but the earlier mentioned suicidal tendencies, or, if we consider them as individuals, we must assume that you imbued them with a never ending hatred for each other and that you gave them the will and the ability for this mutual destruction.

The Panel of Supreme Judges withdrew for deliberation, but returned shortly thereafter with their findings and verdict:

“May the accused rise and face the Judges.”

The Presiding Chairman of the Supreme Judges then read the verdict:

“You failed utterly as an Architect, Builder and Bricklayer. It is therefore our considered opinion that all previously issued licenses, including the license as a common Bricklayer shall be recalled and revoked.

Furthermore you failed utterly in the creation of living beings, in particular that of the human species.

If, indeed, you created them in your image, as you claim, your attributes then clearly do not equip you to fulfill the role of a  creator-god.

You shall therefore be instructed to return to the Primary School of God-studies and shall remain and study there for not less than two eternities.

Now, God, although a total failure, will after two eternities return to the game of  “I am the Greatest” 
and “give it another go as a Theist.”

Should he, as is to be expected, fail for a second time, he will become a Deist.

He will have created this utter mess, and, like a child, having screwed up with his Leggo-set, he will dump everything into his toy-box, slam the lid, and just before the eternal lock snaps shut he will give his final comment:

“I really don't give a damn!”

And then, realizing that he is in all respects a complete failure he will crawl into a black hole of his Universe ( the little which did not fit into his toy box ) and as a new found Atheist mumble to himself and the world:

“you wanna know someptin ?

I don't exist no-more”

Bertstravels

the eternal Agnostic