The absolute absurdity of God

[The Grand Nudger]

Theists expect us to believe in something that is, frankly, quite absurd when you really think about it.

We start with a fairly simple concept:  God, an all-powerful being who created the universe.  And right there, a lot of skeptics are lost from the onset.  And that's completely fair, but the concept itself isn't so absurd.  It just lacks evidence.  And one can believe in many things without evidence.  Maybe not logically so, but it's not completely and totally absurd.

As a bit of background...for the purposes of your post you may start with that concept..but it;s neither simple nor the concept of divinity that human culture began with.  The single all powerful creator god is a recent and complicated development  The origin of god belief lies in a far easier sell.  So..on the one hand, we're conditioned to perceive the idea of a vague but decidedly monotheistic god, a deists god, as the "simple" concept only by relation to a space crowded with sophisticated belief systems..and on the other, it's no less absurd than any of the attendant theology.  A god capable of poofing the universe into existence is the whole enchilada.  No silly story in any magic book is silly in the face of a being like that.  Parts the ocean, splits the moon, can manifest itself as a man...and in many places simultaneously.... all np..to the being that created the universe.  

The god of the tree in my backyard can't do any of that shit.

However, we then delve further into what these theists expect us to believe that this deity created the earth as a test for human beings.   This is where we start delving into the absolutely absurd.  Earth is a 'test'.  One that:

-Nobody asked for, or agreed to take
-The rules for which aren't made immediately clear
-Is rigged against us from the beginning
-Has the sole purpose of determining an eternal afterlife

Ya gotta perform your twelve labors or you won't get absolution!