R.I.P. God

The God of Man may be dead but maybe there is still a Universal God behind the energy of all things… I think that the video Gods Too Decompose brought to light a very important notion. We have killed God. In the name of religion we have taken God for granted and misunderstood the intent and purpose of this whole crazy experiment called Life. I recall a quote from Jurassic Park, “God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God….” I think the Humans of the Ancient Worlds were far closer to God, not only because there was less science getting in the way explaining away all of the awe and wondrous phenomena happening around them, but because there was a distinct feeling inside most people that some higher power existed. In fact, it was rarely doubted.

I noticed in the works of many of the most well known and respected philosophers, those who went down in history for their endless questioning and reasoning, hardly questioned the existence of God, instead pondering more the interpretation of God and his will and what it meant to lead a good life. Well, if even the most skeptical minds had faith surpassing the average religious believer today, what happened to change the way we thought about God? How did we lose him? Did he, in fact, die? When? And what does that do to our notion of good and evil? Heaven and hell? Judgement Day? I think if the masses got wind of the idea that God was dead, all hell would break loose (no pun intended-ok maybe it was a little intended).

What part in our minds holds onto the notion of God? Maybe it is that part of US that has died and not necessarily God himself/itself. Maybe even those who still consider themselves to be believers do not actually have the full capacity to believe and know God the way it was once understood. Maybe just as the imagination tends to hibernate or be pushed down into our unconscious mind as we become adults and are inclined to put aside childish things, the part of our heart or mind that knows God has been buried somewhere as well, beneath all of the trivialities and superficialities of this life. Did God die because of the state of the world today or is the world in its current state because God is already dead?