Why it's Dangerous to Believe God Cares About You
"Heaven and earth are not humane; they regard all beings as straw dogs"— Tao Te Ching
In my 60 years of hereditary religion and spirituality, I have come to the conclusion that believing in an anthropomorphic entity who watches over me, guides me, listens to my prayers, or manifests my desires is a delusion. However, this realization has been liberating and increased my ability to care for myself. I have also removed the barrier between myself and divinity.
Why would a God spend time helping people achieve their dreams but not lift a finger for millions of sex-trafficked children? What's going on here? Favoritism? Karma? Genetics? Sin? Determinism? Interdimensional Choice? ANd how about the majority of hard-working dreamers who don't achieve their dreams?
Why would Jesus magically cause the tornado to miss a Christian family's home and not cause a kidnapper to get hit by a car or have a heart attack before assailing a child? Why are kidnappers so successful? What's the national average of failed attempts?
Did you thank Jesus when your friend survived a car accident or a family member an operation? When your child was sucked away in a tornado, did you say to yourself: "It was the will of God" or "God wanted them to go to heaven?" If you are a spiritual person, did you celebrate your child "choosing" to leave the earth school as it got devoured by a shark on its boogie board?
Why do good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people all the time? How does one believe God cares about them when he (or she) doesn't care about others?
On the night of April 28, a golf cart carrying four people was struck from behind by an alleged drunk driver near Charleston, South Carolina, killing 34-year-old Samantha Miller and critically injuring her new husband, Aric Hutchinson, and two others. The couple had just celebrated their wedding earlier that day.
Why would God allow an innocent child to be eaten alive by a beast?
These are just a few stories on several topics you could search for and find many examples of. As difficult as it is to face these realities there is an excellent reason to slap oneself out of normalcy bias and see what is actually going on around us at any given moment.
Can you honestly say God has protected, provided, and guided you throughout your life as you expected? If your answer is yes, then I challenge you to make a list of the negative circumstances in your life that were ignored by the All-Seeing-Eye. I invite you to examine what you said to yourself when tragedy struck.
This notion is utterly void of common sense. It is an escape hatch from reality. It is consciousness, at its storytelling best, buffering itself from death awareness. With these self-deluding stories, no situation is shielded from crazy. The worst part is that people do not take real-world action to prevent tragedies because they are 3-steps away from an intelligent Googlized city.
The same laws of nature apply to everyone. There are no favorites. Survival is based on being aware of one's environment and responding accordingly.
One of the more popular New Age beliefs is the idea that we, as spiritual beings, choose to come to this "Earth School" for the experience. Now, if you unpack this spiritual bubble gum, you will be confronted with a host of questions that cannot be answered without making up another "belief" system to quell the existential disorientation.
How can we be sure people remember choosing to come to earth? I have found no objective proof outside of subjective validation. Who would choose to come to earth to be tortured in Satanic rituals, or born in a child sex trafficking ring, or to a mother addicted to fentanyl?
We must get brutally honest with ourselves and admit that some things are beyond our understanding without falling into the abyss of nihilism or selling out to religious delusions. Did we, in some unknown way, choose to come here to experience tragedy, and joy, or to help the world? I can accept that possibility. But I won't pretend to know things I do not know. My instincts tell me I am here to help the world and learn about this mortal realm but I'm not going to pretend I remember the celestial circumstances that got me here. And in some ways, it doesn't matter because I AM the universe doing itself in my form.
When people believe in anthropomorphic forces overseeing them, guiding them, talking to them, and protecting them, they are susceptible to falling asleep in fantasyland and avoiding situational awareness.
Consider people who visit national parks and treat them like Disney's Jungle Boat Cruise. Depending on the park, there are lions, bears, wolves, and moose, to name a few, roaming about. Here in Arizona, I have warned several tourists over the years of specific hiking trails to avoid during rattlesnake season. Do you think that would detour them? In many cases, I find their attitude is "It won't happen to me."
The problem with this disconnection is they do not live in the wilderness. They do not know what it is like to be mauled by a bear or bitten by a rattlesnake, so their level of awareness is minimalized. Throw in some religious beliefs, and their divine narcissism may spawn fantasies of escaping the bear attack, calming the snake, or slowing down the charging lion with their Jedi powers. And don't think that prayer isn't a magical power; it is every bit of an incantation.
The fact that some humans raise an eyebrow when you call them animals demonstrates the disconnection. And this is why human primates do not approach their environment with all of their senses. I'm not referring to psychosis, such as paranoia. I'm pointing to the natural instincts that make us animals. But caution, because in some cases, it will invoke accusations of oversensitivity because fear is a four-letter word with the walking dead.
Whatever you do, do not point at the zombies. That is fear. And you will offend them. Zombies are perfectly normal. Just because they roam in hoards and eat people is no cause for alarm "you fear mongerer."
I run into people all of the time who are anathema to the news. They believe the news is fake or a fear-based endeavor. They believe that magical forces are protecting them, so they have no need to inform themselves of the influx of gangs into their neighborhood. When the news comes out that their neighbor's son was stabbed to death, they reluctantly or defiantly ramble their esoteric prose. You see, God is in control, so why must they?
The logical answer to this dilemma is to wake up as a human animal. Be aware of your local, national, and global environment — and stop pretending the world is safe. Stop believing invisible forces are protecting your family when they ignore tortured children in sex trafficking rings. Stop believing God will fix the world's problems when humans do it every day (social workers, psychologists, doctors, etc.). If anything, 'belief in God' is causing the problems of the world (dissociation and avoidance).
God didn't protect Jesus from being crucified any more than he did Gandhi or Martin Luther King from a bullet. What happened to their dreams? Why were they not rewarded as heroes? Why do all the good people get murdered and tortured, whose deaths are celebrated in our culture and myths?
Notice you'll never see a Facebook post of a gorilla with the words "Jesus Love You" or a Baboon sitting under an ascension rainbow.
Once humanity wakes up from their imagination, they will realize that the world is a result of their actions. Words, although they make an impact, do nothing in the form of prayer outside of giving the delusional impression something is happening. Metaphysical chants calm the nerves, and religious prayers "lie to the mind" and lull us into a false sense of security. This spell affects everyone we come in contact with and corrupts our senses.
When we confront reality for what it is, we are more prepared and less likely to suffer avoidable tragedies.
Could the parents of African children be aware enough of the local witch doctors to relocate? Could the bride and groom have been more aware of their environment to avoid the drunk golf cart driver? Could the child on the boogie board have avoided the shark attack by watching for suspicious dorsal fins? Could carjacking have been avoided because the victim checked the local news on the recent crime wave before they left for work?
We can prove that human awareness and action change the conditions of our lives and, thus, the world. You can test this in your home or alone on a desert island. We cannot prove that invisible people or forces do anything in response to our celestial commands. But what we can discover is that we are the universe, not a servant of the universe. At our core, we are energy. Energy doesn't pray to itself or beseech itself in another form. Life lives itself in every form and equips it with all of the senses necessary for survival.
In the archetypical form, God's caring is conceptual. In the human form, God cares very much. Just ask your best friend or listen to your heartbeat. If your heart attacks you, blame the devil.
Let us stop praying to God and Be God. Let's care for ourselves and wake up to the world as 'it is' rather than how we wish it to be, which, unfortunately, is a place where celestial parents take care of adult children. We need adults in the room before we turn spaceship Earth into a zombie apocalypse without an escape hatch.
Food for thought.
— Zzenn
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