Who is God’s God?

We all, or most of us, think there is a god of some description, who started the whole ‘mankind thing’ up a few years, well many years ago.

So, how far do we have to go back in time to find that point in time that started the whole thing off?  Some would point to that time in the past when the universe was ”born”. ‘The Big Bang Theory. Hey, great theory, certainly a very big firework that one was, but, ask yourself this question.  When you light a firework it’s ‘touch the blue paper and retire to a safe distance’ or something, anyway the thing is that someone would have had to touch the blue paper to start the big bang off, or would they?  This is one question that we will not find out here sitting at our computers in the wee hours of the morning.

Let us move forward to about now.  We have supposedly got from primaeval ooze to the handsome humans we are now.  We have done the many gods and graven images that are festooned in the bible and pre-history times and settled for one God: even though it, he or she may be called by many names.  True some cultures still have some demi-gods as well, but they all seem to bow down to one all-powerful god.

Here in the UK (and others) Wicca is still practised. Not being a witch myself

I can’t write from experience about this cult       ( for want of a better word)  I believe (not in the biblical sense) that they worship nature and her (I say her as I have heard that nature is normally portrayed as a woman) spirit, or spirits can be found in everything.  Wicca was about well before Jesus and his followers were even a gleam in their respective parent’s waterworks.

The Christians persecuted the followers of Wicca. Building churches on their hallow ground, calling their religious dates the same as the Wicca dates.  Halloween, Christmas, to name but two of the many festivals that were changed in the cause of removing the so-called pagan religions from history.  Did it work, well not in our now enlighten days?  Wicca must have been bubbling just under the surface of the history pages, a coven here or a coven there.  Now it seems they are becoming popular again.

I ask you.  Were the Christians right to try and stop Wicca?

A new religion hell-bent on masking out an age-old pagan way of life.  This didn’t only happen here but in other parts of the world too. We could talk about in Indians in the USA, or the Spanish’s, unholy, (Holy to the Spanish) mal-treatment off the Aztec’s.

It can be said that there was a lot of bad goings on in the world that was caused by one set of handsome humans to other equally handsome set of human beings, so that during the past centuries societies who worshiped a single God, or Gods, wished to force their God or Gods on other people who already had their own God or Gods.

So who’s to blame?

Of course today, on the whole society tends to be more tolerant of other peoples religious persuasions.  Toleration is the byword for today’s societies though there are still those that only barely tolerate other beliefs.  I don’t need to tell you which one(s) I refer too.

Most of today’s religions are laid down in books, written in the most, well after the date of the start of the different religious starting dates. They said that the ‘pen is mightier than the sword’, but it normally needed the sword (and guns) to make the point.

So today God comes to us from a book!  We have to accept that what was written in these books is true, even though there are still many books and therefore many Gods still out there.

There is a recurring story that appears in a number of religious books as well as the older form of word and mouth.  That is the story of the great flood. They all don’t have Noah and Arks, but they all agree that at one point in history the waters rose and flooded great areas of the planet.  It is possible that it happened the same time as the ice retreated to the poles and the melted ice raised the water table around the world and so flooded the lower areas, like the area that is now the Black Sea, but that is pure speculation on my part.  I ask you. Is it Gods fault that the earth is now warming up and in 100 years or so from now a lot of the lower parts of the earth will be underwater?  Don’t buy a home near the beach unless it’s a boat is my advice to you.

So what about all those Gods that were taken out when the people with the book Gods forced their book God on the peoples who didn’t have a book God?

Societies that could not read or write on passed their Gods down by word of mouth, through priest or

Shaman, or their equivalence. What happens to these Gods?  Are they gone?  Did they let their followers down? After all, it seems they didn’t help them in their time of need.

So it would seem that there are a lot of Gods on this planet.  How many? I wouldn’t like to say, but it is safe to say that there has been and is probably thousands of Gods out there. Being bought up as a Christian I would have to say there is only one God.  That was the number I was brought up on when as a kid went to Sunday school at St Mary’s Church at Maidenhead. Unlike the mostly mono society (to us kids then) of the sixties, today’s children know that there is more than one

religion and share their time at school with other children from many religious backgrounds.  Do you think this would confuse them, I think not; I fill I should say that this mostly applies to city and large urban schools as the schools around here in deepest darkest Wales still have mostly local native population and only a few ‘other religious ‘ pupils with them.

Kids accept the complicated diversity that is today’s multicultural society in their stride.  Schools (and so the governing bodies) encourage the mixing of races and conflicts, at least here in the UK, on the whole, are becoming less and less.  This, of course, will only prevail while the political power is balanced the way it is now.   You only have to look back to Germany and Japan in the 1940s to see what would happen if the wrong political power gets the upper hand.

You are probably screaming at me now saying that there is only one God.

Ah, so, is your God the same as mine?

I don’t want to go any further with this line of questioning so I have given you this link for you to see just how many gods there are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God

I was surprised at the vastness of Gods available to us in the world.  How can it be possible to find out who is right?

Let’s approach this from a different angle: what we shall call the ‘Von Danikan Idea’

‘Father of the ancient astronaut theory ‘.  The author of ‘Chariots of the Gods’.

His idea was that we are basically genetic offspring of aliens from prehistory.  Aliens came to earth when we were basically monkeys or early

humanoids and spliced us with their genetics and spring boarded the human race.  Its as good a theory as any, I ask that you keep an open mind at this point as it does stretch the bounds of imagination a bit, but it does leave a question:  If this was true then we should look to these ‘aliens’ as our forefathers and assuming that they did this out of their own humanity ‘for want of a word’ then they must also have a form of worship and so a God or Gods?

I read this book many years ago and I was very impressed by Von Daniken’s theories.  I believe he has rethought a lot of them now, as they say, the seed of thoughts were planted with this book.  Another author whose ideas are somewhat theoretical and against the norms of science is.  Graham Hancock.  his book; Fingerprints of the Gods,  is well worth a read.

Look at this:-

N = R* X fp X ne X fl X  fi X fc X L

Recognise that mathematical equation above.  No, nor did I

This is the basic Drake Equation.  It depicts that probability of planets in distant solar systems that could have live be it similar or not to our own earth.

If you have a mind to get around the maths then have a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation

Drake predicts that there are or was thousands of civilisations that have started and finished on earth like planets around the universe.  I think it safe to say that if these planets spawned intelligent aware life forms, then they would also, most anyway, have a belief system(s).

If we can get our heads around the fact that there are other life forms ‘out there’, this only multiplies the number of Gods believed in.  If in the future, or maybe not too far in the future, an alien force lands on the front lawn of the White House and these aliens then decree that we have to follow their religion and their God, What would we do?

Like the Aztec’s persecuted by the inquisitors and the Druids driven out by

the Romans.  Would we fight to the death?  Would this start our own War of the Worlds?

Another thought: If God lit the blue touch paper and retired to a safe distance, who was his God?

In conclusion:

If all these different races, tribes, life forms think there existence is caused by their own individual idea of God; that the only reason they are here is due to the intervention of a God, who breathe consciousness into their form, then the obvious conclusion is that there is only one God.  That some religious groups bring death and destruction to those not of their faith, or in some cases, don’t follow their philosophy, then these people are close minded and can’t or don’t want to see the greater picture of what the meaning of the word God is.

I do not prescribe to any religious group and what has been said here in this article are my own thoughts and should be thought over from an open-minded perspective.

Please feel free to post any comments in the appropriate place.

Next time guess who I am going to talk about?….