Agnostic to Atheist

Agnostic to Atheist

As per Hindu customs, before starting any new venture or an event, God is invoked in some manner, the preferred one being Ganpati, the God of wisdom. So, when I begin, or should I say, rebegin this blog after nine years, whom should I invoke? Since I was hardly a believer, maybe in my primary school years, later became agnostic, and now a confirmed (I should believe so) atheist.

I developed this one theory of God during my agnostic years, which I 'ld like to share here..And it's based on algebra! So, here it goes.

Humans, while trying to sustain and thrive using their powers of knowledge building and communication, could not comprehend source of natural phenomena like day/night, rains, wind, and so on. Humans in  different parts of world where civilisation existed, then used algebraic method of assuming the solution as 'X' i.e. 'God' as mentioned in different language. So they declared - Let's assume that this 'X' - 'God' created this phenomena, be it, day/night, rains, wind, earth etc. It became a beginning point of solving equation, now the problem to be solved was - Find out who/which/what is this 'God'. So, some had this assumption for each natural phenomenon or object; there was God of rains, God of wind, God of sun, God of moon, God of mountain. Many societies these Gods became displayed as humans themselves, an anthropomorphic God.

Now, humans are intelligent and a few among them are more intelligent than others. These few folks have tried to solve this equation in two different manner - one using religious ways, other using science. And science folks have been more successful in solving and getting this 'X'. Once you get what creates rain, lo, there is no need of having a God of rains.  But religious folks have believers on their side, so they smartly keep making new assumptions. No God of rains, fine, we will now have God of Creation itself, who has created entire world from scratch. Now, scientists begin to solve this 'X', this God of Creation!

At some point of time, humans forgot that they created this 'X', this assumption of God, and started believing that it's not assumption, but the ultimate truth. And God became omnipotent and most powerful.

I think due to advent of science which permeates our life, and the many questions and assumptions of God which are not required now, it is safe to bury these assumption of God. Once God goes away, so will the evilness in organised religions.