On the matters of faiths, beliefs, sciences and worldviews.

Well, folks, it’s time for another installment of Rayologies. This week, God is like a father giving his son a red bike for Christmas:

Imagine a father tells his beloved son that he was going to buy him a bike for Christmas. The father carefully explains that it would be a red bike, with gears, high tech wheels, and that it would be extremely light-weight. He explains to the boy that it’s completely paid for and says that he will get it as a gift first thing on Christmas morning. What would you think if the son says, “How do I know this will happen?” Such a question would be an insult to his father’s integrity. It means that he doesn’t trust his own father.

Ok, let’s compare God with bicycles, since this is apparently what Ray wants us to do:

• A bike is something man has constructed, using engineering and knowledge of basic physics, whereas God is a concept that is proposed to exist somewhere, but can’t be shown or explained in any possible way.
• A bike is a physical object, that can be verified to actually exist in our universe, whereas God is ethereal/invisible/a force/hiding/extra dimensional/beyond time and space… Just pick whatever makes you most comfortable.
• A bike has observable properties, like the fact that it’s exterior reflects light in the red spectrum, that the material it is made of is a kind of metal and that the wheels really do spin when force is applied, whereas God is… Well, no one even knows, so there’s nothing to observe or test against.
• The promise of the bike existing can be easily falsified by simply waiting for Christmas day. If you receive a bike, you know it exists. With God, however, you must wait until after you are dead and lifeless, making any observation meaningless for everyone but yourself. A dead witness can testify to absolutely nothing. Thus, for those of us still alive, the problem remains.

By this logic, if I promised that I would give you a trillion dollars next week, you would have to be thankful towards me. Anything else would be… Well, Ray explains it as well as always:

Even the most sinful of us is offended when a person doesn’t believe something we tell them. When we don’t believe someone it means that we think that they are a liar. They are devious, and they are therefore not worth trusting.

So, there you have it. Whenever someone doesn’t believe me, regardless of what it is, I have a right to be offended because the other person obviously thinks that I’m “devious” and “not worth trusting”. It doesn’t matter if what you promise is to buy back a beer on the next round at the bar, or eternal life in the heavens with almighty father God. It’s all the same to Ray.