The God Game (Yet again…)

One point which it seems I must repeat every once in a while for as long as I do live is this: the religious believers and the atheists are doomed to battle forever if they can't both get one simple idea into their heads. Both sides of that argument are fighting for a faith. The theists have faith that there is some Higher Power that got the machinery of All That There Is running (exactly how is both unknowable and irrelevant). Meanwhile, the atheists have faith that, while we appear to be living in an orderly Universe, there was no Ultimate Power involved in the startup process. These two combatants in the How It All Began conflict will continue their mutually unproductive aggression until the last human breathes the last available lungful of air, unless one or the other side gasps its last. We could end it all today if we could just get the attention of both sides at the same time. A quick blow to the sides of the heads on both sides--with, say, a 2" x 4"--might serve but I'd be happy with whatever works.… Hey, Theists! Yo, Atheists! Have none of you ever realised that NEITHER side has any conclusive, objective or otherwise empirical PROOF in hand to actually and permanently settle this question one way or the other? That is why the pointless argument about whether a supra-natural exists in the first place and why the moronic jabbering--by both sides--has gone on for so long! The issue is the existence or non-existence of a theoretical "entity" completely outside of the realm of direct human experience. One is welcome to posit the existence of such an entity to one's heart's content, for whatever reason that one chooses to BUT no one can EVER prove conclusively that such a being either exists or does NOT exist. The argument may be stupid but one must admit that it is at least fair.…

I say, GIVE IT UP ALREADY!! Go work on climate change or something else useful. Please note that climate change is at least something that WE are most definitely responsible for. As for God(s)? Keep it to yourself. And that goes for you atheists, too. Go and find out what's killing off the bees.…