Does God Exist?

Book 1: The External Universe | Chapter 1.1 | 26 June 2020

The supernatural character of God is an easy-to-grasp concept for those from religious backgrounds. But for many others, the idea of a "God" has been bastardised by those same religions as something unnecessary, non-existent, or even dangerous.

What's vital to understand is that religion itself was a crucial phase of human evolution and has played an immeasurable role in the development of our society today. However, as the centuries have ticked on, humans have grown to favour the mind over the spirit. This movement has not only turned many people away from organised ideas of religion but has also blurred the power of religion itself.

Religions were initially developed as a more accessible point to control the physics of the cosmos via vibrational offerings. It's humorous, then, when modern viewers scoff at such forward-thinking civilisations like the Ancient Egyptians and their anthropomorphic/zoomorphic viewpoints. Considering this culture's advanced understandings of architecture, mathematics, medicine, and written communications, do you really swallow that their cosmic beliefs were literal? For example, the Moon as an eye of a cat (Bastet) or a dung beetle rolling the Sun across the morning sky (Khepri)? No, these were symbolic representations of specific components of the Universe as "gods" to form a bond/relationship with them. It's a collaboration of creation which is largely a lost art in the modern worshipping world.

Nevertheless, even before this compartmentalising and segregation of "God", faith in a Higher Power always existed. Often, atheists and religious people are debating on a very limited platform, seemingly unaware that the grand scale of this power predates any of these restricted pious institutions. Atheists do believe in a higher power, even if they misinterpret the term. Here's a demonstration: if an atheist doesn't have enough muscle to lift a heavy item, and then someone helps them, it becomes easier to lift the object utilising this combined strength, correct? That is a simplified illustration to show how two people are a higher power than one person. You can continue to climb up this path of meditation until you reach collective powers as immense as the Sun, or you can even climb down into more concentrated forces such as the sperm touching the egg. To deny these things are a power higher than yourself can be easily refuted by your lack of command over their outcomes.

As we've already relayed extensively, Janthopoyism expands from Pantheism, a doctrine that identifies God as the Universe as the Highest Power; a collection of literally everything, good and evil and all of the stuff between. If every electron in existence decided to lift a table, that table would blast out of orbit, then astral travel across time and space.

We're talking about everything here, including the Big Bang model and the subsequent evolutionary system set in motion, which has brought us to this exact moment, a physical manifestation of an ever-advancing "God". The contemplation of what came before these actions illustrate the limitations of our finite minds. We can only comprehend timelines within values of a beginning and an end, a construct our inadequate intellect demands to grasp anything. But these constrained conditions need not apply to the absolute substance of the Universe, which science teaches is infinite anyway, and therefore, theoretically eternal in both directions. Almost every spiritual definition of God agrees with this analysis on some level (which we shall detail over the next chapter).

Debates on whether this totality of energy is conscious or if this path was even intentional is, again, nothing more than futile mental wankery. You are attempting to shove boundless notions into your bounded mind using terminology for thoughts that can't exist within our scope of knowledge. Furthermore, this human obsession with consciousness reveals nothing more than the arrogance of the human ego. Why is consciousness considered the apex of awareness? Just because we have achieved it? Who is to say that there are not multiple levels above our sentience, unfathomable to our soft brains, yet on a plane where consciousness itself is laughable?

Conversely, the Universe could be a big fat mess that doesn't run on coherency, merely random events or a deterministic mathematic formula. But, we repeat, these are irrelevant conclusions. It's the Universe regardless, and anything could fit into a term that we simply use to encompass everything, whatever that may be.

In the end, God exists because God is just that: a word with a myriad of definitions; take your pick. However, we do note the corruption in many of these interpretations. They are now overloaded with so much awkward history that we cannot expect people to undo their conditioning on account of us. Janthopoyism would love to use the title "God" freely, but we appreciate the discomfort this may put certain readers through. Thankfully, there are many many terms we can (and will) use instead. For now, our favourite is Universal Energy. Cool, but just know when we do refer to the "Universal Energy", we are actually saying "God" with a wink to the camera.

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