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>From: "Sandeep Chatterjee"
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>Subject: God is Dead
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> God Is Dead
>
>
>WHO KILLED HIM?
>
>We did!
>
>We located Him and confined Him to the heavens, excluding Him from the
>earth.
>
>We dared to make images of Him. We gave the Ancient of Days a long grey
>beard and a human form.
>
>We cast His role as lying at the beginning of creation,
>
>with odd interventions here and there in history.
>
>"" strange capricious disasters
>
>which insurance companies will not cover.
>
>We restricted His worship to drafty, old, stone buildings, one day out of
>seven.
>
>We gave Him Who has no form as we know it, a human form,
>
>and when a mortal human being reminded us of God's transcendence
>
>we elevated that man into a deity.
>
>Our scientists stole His laws, straight plagiarism.
>
>The planets had moved in elliptical orbits for millions of years before
>Newton 'discovered' the Laws of Motion.
>
>Lacking a Supreme Being we elevated nature to a position not hers.
>
>Then we methodically set out to conquer this power, devastating land, sea,
> and the very air we breathe.
>
>Already satisfied that we had got rid of God, we revived an assembly of
>lesser gods
>
>that would have confused the Greeks, embarrassed the Romans and are the
>envy of the Hindus.
>
>We are contemptuous of worship and prayer, yet we pass our lives in a
>thousand empty rituals, adoring and propitiating a multitude of friendly
>and hostile gods.
>
>We spend lives dedicated to eating and drinking.
>
>Is this not worship?
>
>We have committed ourselves to spending the greater part of our lives
>making money,
>
>and by that we make money our god, for no ascetic monk in his little cell
>ever showed more complete devotion.
>
>We have restored the old idol of voluptuous sexuality, and its nubile form
>graces our newspapers, films, our walls and our dreams.
>
>It, in its turn, has rewarded us with venereal diseases, their sister AIDS
>and social disintegration on an unparalleled scale.
>
>We are too proud to bow before God, but we will crawl on our faces to the
>bank manager, when we run into trouble on our mortgages.
>
>We are, in fact, living our lives in order to buy our houses, like Pharaoh
>who dedicated his reign to building his pyramidical tomb.
>
>With God passed away Heaven and Hell and in their place we put the fantasy,
>
>never-never land of computer graphics and its fully-automated,
>centrally-heated,
>double-glazed, fast-food brothel which has unfortunately the terrifying
>potential to metamorphose into the
>Gulag Archipelago, genocidal massacres and state tyranny as a way of life.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>So God is dead
>
>We killed Him.
>
>Yet the God we killed does not exist anyway.
>
>God one-of-three does not exist. God old man with grey beard does not
>exist.
>
>God remote above the heavens does not exist.
>
>God of this or that people does not exist.
>
>God who sent His son does not exist.
>
>God as Avatars coming to save Humanity from time to time does not exist
>
>
>There is no god,
>
>But THAT
>
>beyond all words, all definitions, all religions, all philosophies, beyond
>the Gita, beyond the Bible, beyond the Koran beyond all mortal thought and
>human conception
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>THAT is One.
>
>THAT is not located in any place, for if THAT were, THAT would be limited
>and so,
>
>not divine.
>
>THAT has no form, for THAT is the ceaseless originator of all forms.
>
>THAT eternally creates the entire cosmos, and THAT sustains every photon,
>
>atom, cell and quasi-stellar object at every instant.
>
>Without THAT they do not exist.
>
>THAT sustains every living thing, Christian, Jew, Hindu or Atheist.
>
>THAT is not the Lord of the Arabs or the Jews, or the Christians,
>
>but Lord of the Worlds, of all beings and of all Being.
>
>No thing resembles THAT, no image nor concept,
>
>yet THAT is the Hearing, the Seeing.
>
>THAT has no son, for THAT's son would have to be a god with limitless power
>
>and it is impossible for two omnipotent beings to exist, they would limit
>each other.
>
>Anything limited is not a god.
>
>THAT is terrible might and power, and sublime mercy and compassion.
>
>THAT is far exalted above and yet THAT is useless
>
> a destination
>
>the Goal, the aim, the destination would be higher than THAT
>
>and nothing is higher than THAT.
>
>God is dead. THAT IS,
>
>The Living Who does not die.
>
>THAT is the Vast and no name can be named for THAT
>
> Sandeep
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