{"tag":"super powers","articles":{"blog\/mythology\/proof-that-there-is-no-god":{"key":"blog\/mythology\/proof-that-there-is-no-god","type":"article","published":true,"meta":{"createdAt":"2017-04-28T19:43:55+02:00","publishedAt":"2016-08-09T12:00:00+02:00","group":null,"category":"blog","subcategory":"mythology","slug":"proof-that-there-is-no-god"},"content":{"en":{"slug":"proof-that-there-is-no-god","title":"Proof that there is no god","intro":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_small.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022360.53333333333\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_small.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border-bottom\u0022 width=\u0022480\u0022 height=\u0022360.53333333333\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","content":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\n                \u003Cnoscript\u003E\n                    \u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022675\u0022 height=\u0022507\u0022\u003E                \n                \u003C\/noscript\u003E\n                \u003Cspan class=\u0022hide-noscript\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022data:image\/png;base64,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\u0022 data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022675\u0022 height=\u0022507\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAgnosticism sounds reasonable then, right? You cannot prove god\u2019s existence, you cannot disprove it, so you label yourself as \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d and... and you live your life as if there were no god. Almost as if you knew there\u2019s none, but just didn\u2019t want to admit it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one does it in regard to any other similar case. We cannot prove there are no unicorns, fairies or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell%27s_teapot\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E flying teapots\u003C\/a\u003E orbiting the Earth, but do we label ourselves as fairy-agnostics? The notion that there are genies who grant three wishes is so \u003Cstrong\u003Eabsurd\u003C\/strong\u003E, that an educated person living in the XXI century either rejects it or becomes a subject of justified ridicule.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow is god different? That notion is so absurd, that since the moment I understood it, I would feel utterly \u003Cstrong\u003Eashamed\u003C\/strong\u003E not to reject it, too ashamed to hide behind the \u201cnobody knows\u201d excuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut most importantly: \u003Cstrong\u003Eyes, you can\u003C\/strong\u003E. You can prove that there is no god.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust like you can prove there are no married bachelors, no hot coldness and no dry water. \u201cMarried\u201d means \u201chaving a spouse\u201d, \u201cbachelor\u201d means \u201cnot having a spouse\u201d \u2013 you cannot be both at once. \u201cHot\u201d means having high temperature, while \u201ccoldness\u201d implies low temperature \u2013 nothing can be both at once. \u201cDry\u201d means \u201clacking in liquid\/moist\u201d, while \u201cwater\u201d is the precisely that liquid, which should be lacking in order to make something dry. Here, I\u2019ve just \u003Cem\u003E\u201cproven the negative\u201d.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDifferent people define \u201cgod\u201d to mean vastly different things, but I guess the majority of world\u2019s believers would agree that their god is a person that created the universe, is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, free, infinitely good, just and merciful. Possibly also spaceless and timeless?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAny god that has those attributes cannot possibly exist. He\/she\/it (let\u2019s stick to \u201che\u201d for simplicity), he would be \u003Cstrong\u003Eself-contradictory\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo be omnipotent, he has to be able to do literally everything. But since he\u2019s also omniscient, he already knows what he\u2019s gonna and not gonna do. \u003Cstrong\u003ECan he do things he knows he will not do?\u003C\/strong\u003E If so, his omniscience was mistaken. If not, he\u2019s not omnipotent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince he already knows all his future actions, can he at all do anything else? \u003Cstrong\u003EEither he doesn\u2019t know everything, or has no free will.\u003C\/strong\u003E (Also: praying to him to change his mind is either futile or arrogantly interfering with his primeval, perfect plan).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet alone the question how do we know god has all those attributes, but let\u2019s ask ourselves, how does he himself know it? \u003Cstrong\u003EHow does one know they\u2019re omniscient?\u003C\/strong\u003E He might know a lot, he might not have yet stumbled upon a single question he doesn\u2019t know the answer to. Yet. How can he be sure there\u2019s nothing outside of his knowledge? To paraphrase our imaginary theist apologist: you cannot prove that there\u2019s nothing he doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know, can you?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMercy is, by definition, suspension of justice.\u003C\/strong\u003E You can either judge someone as they should be judged to even the offence they caused, or you can show mercy towards them and alleviate their punishment. Not both at once. (Unless you\u2019re a married bachelor, maybe).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, infinite justice would require you to know and understand all the suffering and all the \u003Cstrong\u003Etemptations\u003C\/strong\u003E that your accused was subjected to. Of course, god does know that, right? He\u2019s omniscient, in the end. But can you really understand such issues, unless you have experienced them yourself? Would you feel judged fairly, if your judge has never been tempted, has no needs, has no limits, no problems, no weakness?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(If we focus on one particular religion, you could argue that god does indeed know all the struggles of being a human, since he came here as his own son and in a human form begged himself for forgiveness.... You know, two thousand years ago, while the human race exists since at least a hundred thousand. Ooooh, the timeline of god\u2019s plan is a topic for a separate discussion... Long story short: it\u2019s just another lame theological excuse.)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing infinitely good, while having created a \u003Cstrong\u003Euniverse where evil exists\u003C\/strong\u003E, is also contradictory. If you\u2019re omnipotent, therefore able to create any universe you wish, but you decide to create one with evil in it, then you and only you are \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible for that evil\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur apologist would now certainly say that our universe is the best possible one, and if god removed some evil from it, some other one would emerge in a different place. And also that in order to have free will, we have to be allowed to do wicked things. (God, however, already knows what we\u2019re gonna do, before we do it... So are we free or predestined? Make up your mind, finally!)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOk, hands up, who deliberately does evil \u003Cstrong\u003Ejust because you can\u003C\/strong\u003E? Oh... apparently not that much, is it? Most of our evil-doing comes from the conditions we live in, that could easily be changed by an omnipotent being. God could\u2019ve created the world with more natural resources and more fair distribution thereof, so that we didn\u2019t have to work that hard and fight that much for them. God could\u2019ve created us with weaker sexual desires. Or at least reveal himself, so that we make an \u003Cstrong\u003Einformed\u003C\/strong\u003E decision about our beliefs. How could any of this lead to more evil, not less?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf suffering has to exist, because it makes us better human beings, how come the perfect god manages to be good without suffering?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what the fuck are all the parasites and diseases about? Innocent children are dying in huge numbers every day, totally senselessly. It builds their character? Their suffering enriches the world around them? Please...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, since god is so omnipotent, cannot he create a universe with free will but without evil? Even if such universe would be self-contradictory \u2013 isn\u2019t god self-contradictory as well? Or maybe such universe is possible, but the omniscient god doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know about it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf he\u2019s spaceless (being nowhere), how can he also be omnipresent (being everywhere)? And how could a spaceless, timeless, non-abstract being possibly be distinguished from anything else?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, if we just focus on Christian god: he has an arch enemy, Satan. \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is even the point\u003C\/strong\u003E of the devil opposing god at all, if god knows his every past and future move, he knows Satan\u2019s every plan, he is there when devil plans it, and is perfectly capable of doing literally anything! An omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god, who doesn\u2019t destroy the devil, is \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible\u003C\/strong\u003E for the devil!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhew!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, to sum up: god such as proposed by the majority of believers, regardless of the particular version, is an idea so self-contradictory in so many different aspects, that it logically cannot exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGod does not exist.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuod erat demonstrandum.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["agnosticism","atheism","contradiction","existence","god","logic","omnipotence","omnipresence","omniscience","paradox","proof","religion","super powers"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_small.jpeg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_mini.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022180.26666666667\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_big.jpeg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/proof-that-there-is-no-god_mini.jpeg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022180.26666666667\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one can prove god\u2019s existence. When an atheist states this obvious fact, they will almost certainly hear the response \u201cwell, but you cannot prove he \u003Cem\u003Edoesn\u2019t\u003C\/em\u003E exist, either!\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAgnosticism sounds reasonable then, right? You cannot prove god\u2019s existence, you cannot disprove it, so you label yourself as \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d and... and you live your life as if there were no god. Almost as if you knew there\u2019s none, but just didn\u2019t want to admit it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENo one does it in regard to any other similar case. We cannot prove there are no unicorns, fairies or \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russell%27s_teapot\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E flying teapots\u003C\/a\u003E orbiting the Earth, but do we label ourselves as fairy-agnostics? The notion that there are genies who grant three wishes is so \u003Cstrong\u003Eabsurd\u003C\/strong\u003E, that an educated person living in the XXI century either rejects it or becomes a subject of justified ridicule.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow is god different? That notion is so absurd, that since the moment I understood it, I would feel utterly \u003Cstrong\u003Eashamed\u003C\/strong\u003E not to reject it, too ashamed to hide behind the \u201cnobody knows\u201d excuse.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut most importantly: \u003Cstrong\u003Eyes, you can\u003C\/strong\u003E. You can prove that there is no god.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHow?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJust like you can prove there are no married bachelors, no hot coldness and no dry water. \u201cMarried\u201d means \u201chaving a spouse\u201d, \u201cbachelor\u201d means \u201cnot having a spouse\u201d \u2013 you cannot be both at once. \u201cHot\u201d means having high temperature, while \u201ccoldness\u201d implies low temperature \u2013 nothing can be both at once. \u201cDry\u201d means \u201clacking in liquid\/moist\u201d, while \u201cwater\u201d is the precisely that liquid, which should be lacking in order to make something dry. Here, I\u2019ve just \u003Cem\u003E\u201cproven the negative\u201d.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDifferent people define \u201cgod\u201d to mean vastly different things, but I guess the majority of world\u2019s believers would agree that their god is a person that created the universe, is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, free, infinitely good, just and merciful. Possibly also spaceless and timeless?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAny god that has those attributes cannot possibly exist. He\/she\/it (let\u2019s stick to \u201che\u201d for simplicity), he would be \u003Cstrong\u003Eself-contradictory\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo be omnipotent, he has to be able to do literally everything. But since he\u2019s also omniscient, he already knows what he\u2019s gonna and not gonna do. \u003Cstrong\u003ECan he do things he knows he will not do?\u003C\/strong\u003E If so, his omniscience was mistaken. If not, he\u2019s not omnipotent.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESince he already knows all his future actions, can he at all do anything else? \u003Cstrong\u003EEither he doesn\u2019t know everything, or has no free will.\u003C\/strong\u003E (Also: praying to him to change his mind is either futile or arrogantly interfering with his primeval, perfect plan).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet alone the question how do we know god has all those attributes, but let\u2019s ask ourselves, how does he himself know it? \u003Cstrong\u003EHow does one know they\u2019re omniscient?\u003C\/strong\u003E He might know a lot, he might not have yet stumbled upon a single question he doesn\u2019t know the answer to. Yet. How can he be sure there\u2019s nothing outside of his knowledge? To paraphrase our imaginary theist apologist: you cannot prove that there\u2019s nothing he doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know, can you?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMercy is, by definition, suspension of justice.\u003C\/strong\u003E You can either judge someone as they should be judged to even the offence they caused, or you can show mercy towards them and alleviate their punishment. Not both at once. (Unless you\u2019re a married bachelor, maybe).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, infinite justice would require you to know and understand all the suffering and all the \u003Cstrong\u003Etemptations\u003C\/strong\u003E that your accused was subjected to. Of course, god does know that, right? He\u2019s omniscient, in the end. But can you really understand such issues, unless you have experienced them yourself? Would you feel judged fairly, if your judge has never been tempted, has no needs, has no limits, no problems, no weakness?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(If we focus on one particular religion, you could argue that god does indeed know all the struggles of being a human, since he came here as his own son and in a human form begged himself for forgiveness.... You know, two thousand years ago, while the human race exists since at least a hundred thousand. Ooooh, the timeline of god\u2019s plan is a topic for a separate discussion... Long story short: it\u2019s just another lame theological excuse.)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeing infinitely good, while having created a \u003Cstrong\u003Euniverse where evil exists\u003C\/strong\u003E, is also contradictory. If you\u2019re omnipotent, therefore able to create any universe you wish, but you decide to create one with evil in it, then you and only you are \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible for that evil\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur apologist would now certainly say that our universe is the best possible one, and if god removed some evil from it, some other one would emerge in a different place. And also that in order to have free will, we have to be allowed to do wicked things. (God, however, already knows what we\u2019re gonna do, before we do it... So are we free or predestined? Make up your mind, finally!)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOk, hands up, who deliberately does evil \u003Cstrong\u003Ejust because you can\u003C\/strong\u003E? Oh... apparently not that much, is it? Most of our evil-doing comes from the conditions we live in, that could easily be changed by an omnipotent being. God could\u2019ve created the world with more natural resources and more fair distribution thereof, so that we didn\u2019t have to work that hard and fight that much for them. God could\u2019ve created us with weaker sexual desires. Or at least reveal himself, so that we make an \u003Cstrong\u003Einformed\u003C\/strong\u003E decision about our beliefs. How could any of this lead to more evil, not less?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf suffering has to exist, because it makes us better human beings, how come the perfect god manages to be good without suffering?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd what the fuck are all the parasites and diseases about? Innocent children are dying in huge numbers every day, totally senselessly. It builds their character? Their suffering enriches the world around them? Please...\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, since god is so omnipotent, cannot he create a universe with free will but without evil? Even if such universe would be self-contradictory \u2013 isn\u2019t god self-contradictory as well? Or maybe such universe is possible, but the omniscient god doesn\u2019t know he doesn\u2019t know about it?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf he\u2019s spaceless (being nowhere), how can he also be omnipresent (being everywhere)? And how could a spaceless, timeless, non-abstract being possibly be distinguished from anything else?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, if we just focus on Christian god: he has an arch enemy, Satan. \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat is even the point\u003C\/strong\u003E of the devil opposing god at all, if god knows his every past and future move, he knows Satan\u2019s every plan, he is there when devil plans it, and is perfectly capable of doing literally anything! An omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god, who doesn\u2019t destroy the devil, is \u003Cstrong\u003Eresponsible\u003C\/strong\u003E for the devil!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhew!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, to sum up: god such as proposed by the majority of believers, regardless of the particular version, is an idea so self-contradictory in so many different aspects, that it logically cannot exist.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGod does not exist.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuod erat demonstrandum.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","words":1195,"readTime":5,"lang":"en"}}}}}