God is Ego.

Today I had the unpleasant experience of getting into an argument with my boss about God. As an Atheist you know which stance I took but he defended his claims that there is an omnipotent force watching over us out there. His proof was that there must be something out there because karma exists. He says that there is a balance of positive and negative energy. Blah blah blah... "The Secret". He didn't specifically say "The Secret" but he used the same bullshit reasoning that if you send positive energy out into the universe through the laws of attraction positive things will come back to you. Despite the fact that brainwaves and good deeds don't have charges, and if they did, as most people know (or don't), opposites attract and like charges repel. Through this logic, good thoughts or "energy" would attract bad things. Therefore, everyone should do terrible things to each other.

Anyways, as I delicately attempted to pick apart his stupid "logic" and pseudoscientific reasoning he said to me something like: "yes, maybe those good things are coincidences but I truly believe that some things are gifts for doing good..." blah blah blah he tells me about something good that happened to him. This is a reasoning that a lot of people use to "prove" the existence of a higher power. The fact is, when you receive something out of the blue, there are millions upon millions of people who receive nothing. Let me use the lottery as an example. One day there's a guy who kind of believes there might be something out there but is teetering on the belief scale. But he wins millions of dollars in the lottery one day and all of the sudden it's a gift from God. God obviously loves him and that is why he won, it's not the one in 100 million chance that randomly happened to be his numbers. I realized that a large amount of people gain faith when they win the lottery (see that lottery show that I can't remember the name of but just started on TV). This is an entirely egoistic point of view. These people believe that they were special enough to be chosen by God to win the lottery. They forgot about the part where millions of other people lost 10 bucks. The same goes for the less extreme examples of where you received X because of good karma.

What I want to say is that the Universe is fucking gigantic. I mean, it is huge to the point of disbelief. That in itself is really amazing and if I were to be a believer it would be that. Of course, then you have to realize that a "creator" would have probably invented the universe and then lost interest in the pitiful lives of us insignificant, lowly humans. Saying that you deserve something more than others in a cosmic sense is borderline retarded. Not only with winning things or not dying in a car crash or whatever, but also with things like faith healing. While you may have miraculously recovered from some ailment, it doesn't take away the fact that probably thousands of other people died from that same ailment and you are frankly the anomaly in the percentage that survived. Crazy, unpredictable, unlikely things happen. In fact, if it can happen, it probably will happen some percentage of the time. It doesn't mean that someone is looking out for you alone. If you believe that, you are narrow-mindedly closing yourself out from the harsh realities of the rest of the suffering in the world.

Therefore, God is often the interpretation that narrow-mined people have about random chance since they don't understand statistical probability. If you have a reason for believing in God, please don't let it be good things happening to you. If you live in a first-world country, good things have a high probability of happening to you. Please, readers, weigh in. That is all.