Here Lies God R.I.P.

[Cinjin]

If they can die they wouldn't be a god.

Thats your perception of god - and you may be right ... but I have never been told by anyone that a god of any kind did not have the ability to die. Even the creator of all things.

At any rate ... my brother’s postulate is as follows:

Not only has God died – but he chose to die.
Imagine that you have infinite power and you decided to create an entire universe. And somewhere during that act, you created earth and put life into motion. Six billion years later you find out that life has flourished on one of your little planets and beings are actually worshipping you through various religions of their own making. This pleases you until you realize that they’re killing each other in your name. So you leave and decide to check in on them every few thousand years in the hopes that you didn’t create an entire race of idiots. Unfortunately, every time you stop in to see the humans, they are even worse off than they were before and you grow ever saddened by your own creation. This leads you to become a depressed God and you wander around your universe with little to do. You realize that your infinite power still cannot save your living creations from destroying themselves and you become so distraught that you simply allow yourself to die. And thus, we have no proof of God anymore, and it’s been so long since he was last on this planet that no physical evidence can be found that he was ever around.

Basically, my brother postulates that the human race, in a way, killed off God.
Keep in mind that this is NOT his devout religious conviction … just his own ruminations.

“Secularization, science, urbanization — all have made it comparatively easy for the modern man to ask where God is and hard for the man of faith to give a convincing answer, even to himself…” ~ John T. Elson