Drawing on a discussion between George Carlin and a Vicar on National American television in the 90's I would like to put forward and argument that was not used but should have been.
Carlin: 'If God exists, may he strike me dead right now.' (nothing obviously happens)
Vicar: Ahh, it was not god's will to kill you.
Okay, brilliant counter-argument there from the priest, except for one point that went unnoticed. It is actually a counter-argument to ALL prayer. If you pray and pray and pray to win the lottery, for example, yet it isn't in ''god's will'' for you to ever win it, then what is the point of praying at all? They say all prayers are answered, but if god can pick and choose which prayers are going to be answered, he already has your life planned out for you, meaning whether you pray or not, it should, in effect, make no difference whatsoever. So if you can't prove God's existence through prayer, the one think that supposedly could show, yes, God exists, what's the difference between that, and no God at all?
Carlin: 'If God exists, may he strike me dead right now.' (nothing obviously happens)
Vicar: Ahh, it was not god's will to kill you.
Okay, brilliant counter-argument there from the priest, except for one point that went unnoticed. It is actually a counter-argument to ALL prayer. If you pray and pray and pray to win the lottery, for example, yet it isn't in ''god's will'' for you to ever win it, then what is the point of praying at all? They say all prayers are answered, but if god can pick and choose which prayers are going to be answered, he already has your life planned out for you, meaning whether you pray or not, it should, in effect, make no difference whatsoever. So if you can't prove God's existence through prayer, the one think that supposedly could show, yes, God exists, what's the difference between that, and no God at all?
For me, The biggest Biblical contradiction is this:
''Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me''
Exodus 20:4-5
I am a jealous god? Isn't that one of the seven deadly sins? Oh dear me. And even worse... He's not going to punish the person who dislikes him... but his Children, and his children's children? Without trail? Oh, so much mercy God... How merciful you really are.
