"god" Making

My Pseudo-Neighbor

I do not like my neighbor—never mind that he does not exist.

Let me tell you about that non-neighbor.  He is self serving, does not care who he inconveniences, parks his cars and boats all over the neighborhood, his dogs bark all hours of the day and night, and he is narcissistic, sociopathic, psychopathic, and much, much more.  He walks into my house all hours of the day and night, leaves his “stuff” all over my yard, and that is the good that he does.  The bad is far worse.  I simply do not like this neighbor that does not exist!

The God Who does Not Exist

The point is this.  How can I not dislike and not believe in a person that does not exist?  This is the logic of those who create a god out of their biases and misperceptions and then claim that such a god does not exist.  They are right!  He does not exist and that says nothing about the God who does exist. 

God Making

Each person is vested with the power to make choices.  That is anyone can choose to believe what they choose to believe.  Thus they can choose to believe that good is bad, light is dark, up is down, etc.  Of course, believing those things in no way makes them true.  So it is with formulating erroneous beliefs about God.  Just because one believes them in no way makes them valid or even logical.  In fact many of the claims such people make do not stand up under simple logical consideration!

God Making From Where?

From where does such originate?  These beliefs come of a mindset that has at its center the individual.  This is the notion that one’s belief system is valid because that person believes it.   Their own notions, ideas, and beliefs come to occupy center stage in their truth paradigm!  Such does not mean it is genuine, just that it is what they have come to believe.

Unintended Outcomes

There is an unintended consequence of such a thought process. 

What is the eventual end of such a mindset?  Well, there is no end to it!  However, owing to the very basic tenants of such a mindset there a continuing process.  Pushed out further and further, one arrives at the narcissistic, sociopathic, and even psychopathic individual.   This is the person who is insatiably preoccupied his their own pleasure without consideration of its effects upon others.

The reason for such is that the self has every potential of becoming ravenously selfish.  Such a person is selfish without there being some restraint.  The insatiable self leads to a greater and greater need for satisfaction.  Soon the individual becomes of such paramount importance, so self-centered that nothing nor anyone is of any importance.  All are there to meet the needs of the individual and any inconvenience or challenge must be discarded or ignored.

Refashioning God

In the process of what has just been describes there is another process that has been set in motion.  That is the individual begins to refashion God into a god who seldom is far above that persons moral proclivities.  Such a person humanizes God into being god. Instead of creating man in God's image, now we have a god created in a man's image.  Why?  Very simply the God who is has becomes very, very inconvenient.

There then comes the illogical part of the process.  It comes with the declaration that the god of one's creation does not exist.   Well, matter of fact, they are right.  How could any other conclusion be reached?  Simply stated, it is just like my non-existent neighbor in whom I do not believe.  Such a person has created a non-existent god and then set about disproving and disapproving of him.

However, such a mental exercise says absolutely nothing about the God who does exist!