i am confused, does god exist or not? this article made me think! what is the truth.

God does not exist.

“God” is just a form of schizophrenic delusion, which has constructed itself into the temporal lobes of the human brain, and which is experienced as an epileptic seizure whenever humans befallen by the god-delusion experience something that they cannot fathom yet using their rational intellects.

So this means that whenever humans who are born with affected temporal lobes experience something that is baffling to them, for which no rational explanation yet exists because they have not fathomed out that particular one of Creation’s practically endless secrets yet, then their brain short-circuits and they experience a mild epileptic seizure which results in the explanation appearing “self-evident” to them that everything mysterious and unfathomable is just explainable away by saying “God did it”.

It is like an invisible electric collar around the neck of every believer, so that as soon as they stray too far away from the flock and encounter something interesting that they could fathom and explore in order to become knowing about something real, their collar activates, causing a mild shock to them that gets them to remember to think of God and the explanation that has been drilled into them by the priests and their parents that God is the one and only explanation for every mystery. And so, after they experience this mild shock that is in actuality just a mild epileptic seizure, then their brain feels satisfied that they have “solved” the mystery which now no longer needs any investigation at all anymore - and so from there, they turn away from whatever it was that piqued their curiosity and go back to their “good, proscribed Christian behaviour” or “good, proscribed Muslim behaviour” or whatever simple pattern of behaviour that the priests have invented for them to follow like sheep herders who create fences to prevent their lambs from being free to wander freely of their own accord in the meadows.

Basically, humans are born in order to fathom the secrets of Creation for themselves using their own intellects and rationality, and basically trusting in the logic of Creation.

For eons, this worked and humans lived with no reason not to feel joy at being alive, but then along the way some humans began to experience the epileptic seizure described above, which caused anything mysterious or unfathomable needing to be explored to be explained away with the simple explanation "God". And then they passed down the proneness through their progeny until, today in the year 2017 (by Gregorian calendar), about 80% of the world's population are living with some form of the epileptic seizure or another.

And since this mild epileptic seizure actually just is like a sudden mild shock to the brain that diverts it away from whatever currently holds its focus, then it is very easy for any priest or pope or monk or whoever to come along and then "enlighten" those befallen by the epileptic seizure problem that whenever they experience that seizure, it is really just them connecting to God or whatever deity they have invented in their imagination to act as the central figure for the religion.

And so for eons and eons, humans of Earth have basically been killing each other because everyone experiences the epileptic seizure as a different imaginary deity "speaking to them" or in some other way interacting with them, and so they have fought countless bloody battles tooth, nail, and claw over whose imaginary figure is really responsible for the epileptic seizure and who is actually the one and only figure who has been "communicating" to human beings for thousands of years.

Although it has only ever been a mild epileptic seizure taking place, and that's it. That's all that the "experience of God" is.

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