He beseeches an imaginary friend, a deified almighty being to ward off an imaginary enemy, a demonised almighty being… who ironically was supposedly created by the first, who strangely is unwilling or unable to vanquish the second. Is the first really a true friend then? Is the second...

Super Short Story (199): Saved By God? He saved her because he believed they are children of the same God, who would wish him to save her. She does not believe there is such a God, who could save her, but she is now a believer that even an illusion might indirectly save. She does believe...

Interesting dialogues from the movie ‘Verbo’: Sara: Our history teacher told us something. A big mess in the Church a long time ago. He said there was this debate about the digestive process and holy wafer. Stercorism or something like that. One side said the wafer stopped being...

If it is perfectly natural for there to be a perfect creator, it would be perfectly unnatural for this creator to create anything imperfect. As much is naturally imperfect, it is perfectly natural that there is no perfect creator, who was ‘created’ by imperfect...

Z: (After hearing about it from H) Gnostic Christianity, as with many things, is very interesting indeed. But life is too short to compare religious similarities and differences to no end. Life can end any time too. Good to 一门深入 (enter one Dharma door deeply) to practise towards...

A Dharma friend passed me a book. Here is my revew of it… On the book ‘Meetings with Remarkable People’, unfortunately, it is, as experienced before, one of those books by Osho who misrepresents the Buddha. Not that all he writes is downright wrong, but he habitually mixes...

From the graphic novel ‘Americus’ by MK Reed and Jonathan Hill is this amusing frame. According to the Bible, everything arose less than 6,000 years ago, while modern science points to fossils dated back to the Archean Eon, some 4.6 to 2.5 billion years ago. When Creationists...

From the movie, ‘An Education’ Headmistress: Have you set a date? Have you decided on a church? Jenny: We won’t be getting married in a church. David’s Jewish. Headmistress: Jewish? He’s a Jew? You are aware, I take it, that the Jews killed our Lord...

From the remake of the controversial classic ‘Straw Dogs’: Charlie: Hey Mr Sumners, can I ask you a question? David: Sure. Charlie: Why you making a movie about a bunch of Russians? David: I don’t really see it like that. I see I more as a universal tale of survival....

Paul Kemp in ‘The Rum Diary’ says, while high on drugs, ‘”I wonder what it is you might think about our different worlds,” he (lobster in a tank) looked at me kinda sideways and said, “Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that claim a God. And the...

This sums it up perfectly, as to how, if there is a creator God (which there isn’t), he is surely not perfect in compassion and wisdom. to give free will to his imperfect creation, who also lacks perfect compassion and wisdom, who thus make a mess of so many things. And that things...

In the movie ‘Tree of Life’, a family is run by a authoritarian father. They are depicted to be not particularly special – American middle-class, attends church…  But the father is so strict and hard in his punishments that his children begin to fear him. A son even...

At the beginning of the movie ‘Cracks’, the song ‘All Things Bright And Beautiful’ is sung in a boarding school. And from movie-going experience, this sets the tone for the ironies to come, when some things dark and ugly are going to surface. The first two stanzas of...

The law of karma is perfectly just because it is perfectly natural and unbiased; not created or directed by any imperfect supernatural and biased lawmaker. - Stonepeace  Question: If karma exists to punish the evil and reward the good, who assigns karma? Shouldn’t there be God doing...

A friend forwarded to me an email from a Buddhist teacher, who advocated that evangelists should simply be ignored. I replied so: ‘It’s not compassionate to always ignore evangelists, especially if they speak to us out of compassion, albeit misplaced. I’ve spoken to one...

The Self-Defeating God (How God Proves He Does Not Exist By Not Proving He Does Exist) Reasoning: It is the primary existential responsibility of an almighty, good and wise creator, if ‘he’ exists, to prove that ‘he’ exists to all ‘his’ creations beyond...

There are too many ungrounded assumptions in Pascal’s Wager. Firstly, one must believe there is a God [who must be believed in]. Secondly, one must believe that this God is almighty and good [in rewarding]. Thirdly, one must believe that one will ‘gain all’ if this God is believed...

‘The Lord [God] was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots.’ So states the Bible in Judges 1:19 at http://bible.cc/judges/1-19.htm This means that God, as described,...

At an inter-religious forum, after representatives of several religions introduced the gise of their ideology, someone in the audience hinted that it seems that Hinduism is the only one that accepts all religions as various paths to God, and that it seems superior in that aspect. This is a...

Text visual on the video wall of Depeche Mode’s Tour of the Universe concert in Barcelona during the song ‘Precious’: I Have Learned So Much I Have Learned So much from God That I can no longer Call Myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim A Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has...