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Speaking for God

"Have you not seen a delusive vision, and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, 'Says the Lord,' although I have not spoken?"
Ezekiel 13:7


How many times have we heard some fat, loud-mouthed preacher of a type sputter and howl, "God says this, and God says that?" How many more times do we have to hear that blather until we wake up and realize that nobody speaks for God, not a man dressed in black or in robes waving a black-covered book, not a man wearing a turban shouting "Jihad!," not a man of any kind?

Omnipresence Has No Spokespeople
The point is that even to these people "God" is supposedly omnipresent and, as such, is not, cannot be and never will be contained in one book, no matter how many times the cheerleaders of that book threaten eternal damnation and punishment. If "God" is omnipresent - a device conveniently used by these selfsame "preachers" to scare people into behaving, e.g., "God is watching you at all times" - then "God" is contained in everything, and that means every book, every person, every animal and every rock. That is the definition of omnipresence. In case the religionists still don't get that, let's spell it out:


"omnipresent : present in all places at all times" Webster's

Case closed. It is not possible for an omnipresent divinity to be here but not there. It is impossible for an omnipresent deity to be absent from someplace. That is the bottom line. Therefore - paradoxically to the notion that arrogant bozos who pretend to speak for God are fulla-da-shit - every book and every creature that claims to be speaking for God must be right, even those that say God is an utterly bogus concept designed to enslave the human race. Since God is omnipresent, God is also speaking when Bertrand Russell says:

"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings."

Since God is omnipresent, i.e., present in all places at all times, and there is no place that God is not present, then "God" has also said, through the mouth of Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"We must get rid of the Christ, we must get rid of that Christ."

Or of Thomas Carlyle, who said, "If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ."

Or of Nietzsche, who signed "Anti-Christ" after his name. His point was that Christ was a humiliation on humanity, always turning his cheek and shepherding us stupid "lost sheep."
For the rest, please see "Speaking for God."

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