Does God Really Exist?

Is God real? Or is God a fabrication of the minds of inadequate men who cannot cope with a world beyond which there is nothing but void. Was God created by men solely to control the lesser breeds, so that priests might hold sway? In ancient societies, both primitive and advanced, priests and their equivalent held positions of great power. Now priests have little power. The power of the greatest priest is limited to garnering huge crowds of the faithful on his visits to lands afar or antagonising huge crowds who, with a rent-a-mob mentality and little knowledge or understanding, supposedly proclaim an alternative creed.

The influence of priests on people today is less than it has been at any time in human history. And they have in great measure brought this upon themselves. Does a church which has deliberately hidden the gross sexual abuse of children, young men and women, for decades, probably centuries, deserve any respect at all? Does the High Priest who has been so active in this hiding deserve his position as God’s representative on earth?

Now he chooses to warn that Hell is real and Hell is for eternity. Presumably his priests believed the same message when they had sex with boys, nuns and willing members of the congregation. Did they not believe in a God who judges, who then consigns to heaven or hell, or do they believe that no sin can separate them from the love of Jesus and his all-forgiving church?

The Catholic Church rightly condemns homosexuality, but it expects its priests to be less than men, to cast aside the natural desires God has implanted in man for woman. That church demands celibacy of its priests, a demand which was acknowledged as nonsense in the Reformation in England. That was one of the great reforms which came with the Church of England.

The Church of Rome makes impossible demands on its priests and their lives are all the poorer for that. The demand is too great for very many priests, if not most priests. The result is the sex scandals now engulfing the Catholic Church. It is rich enough to pay off the victims in America, powerful enough to silence them elsewhere. The Catholics decry homosexuality as an abomination. They should do the same with enforced celibacy. By denying man the richness of a relationship with a woman, a real woman, not the plastic tart so common today, the Church does not help a priest find God. It helps him lose a vital part of himself.

And much of the problem lies in the Church’s teachings on love and forgiveness. The Catholics place great store on Confession. The priest forgives sins and hands out penances. He claims to stand in loco deo. But he does no such thing. At best he stands in loco cathedra. He represents the church. He does not represent God. He represents a corrupted doctrine, a gross perversion of the teachings of Christ, at least as gross a perversion as the sexual devotions which the Church so rightly condemns.

This is because the Church does not teach about the absolute nature of God’s Judgement, a once and for eternity event. That would reduce the power of the priesthood. How can the priest forgive sins whilst warning that God weighs all things in the final balance?

The teachings of all the churches are corrupted to varying degrees. The behaviour of priests likewise…… From the sexual deviants in the Catholic Church to the Pastors of the Evangelical churches who extract their 10% irrespective of need on the part of their congregations. There may be needy people in their churches, but there are no needy pastors and certainly no needy churches. Indeed, the churches seem to breed like rats, ensnaring yet more of the needy who have little hope in this world.

It is not difficult to see how Richard Dawkins is able to condemn religion. It is easy to talk of the good works done by Christian Churches over the past century or two, but is the church today anything more than a conscience-salving social club, even for the mainstream churches, away from the rabid evangelicals?

I have yet to meet a priest who is happy to discuss on a logical basis the question ‘Does God exist?’ The born-agains bore you to death with how ‘the Lord took control of their lives’. But they quickly get hot under the collar when you question how they know the identity of this ‘Lord’ who rescued them from their life of sin, gambling, drink, women or wealth….. Have they not just swapped one possession for another?

Is God real? That is the million dollar question. Throw away the priests. That’s all that almost all are worth today. They are brainwashed purveyors of corrupt dogmas, unworthy of the positions they hold. Most are afraid to condemn the evils of society around them, hanging on for dear life to …….’Judge not lest ye be not judged’. Most priests are parasites on society. They do not attack the ills of society; they feed them with all the talk of forgiveness. If they warned of a God of Judgement, of the reality of Heaven and Hall, and if they exhibited such belief in the way they lived their lives, they would be worthy of their positions. But they are largely social workers trying to pull in punters to fill their near-empty pews.

The Bishop of Carlisle was one of the few to see the truth, that the English floods were a part of God’s Judgement on a corrupt society and Britain has the most corrupt society in Europe. Protestantism has proved to have very shallow roots compared with Catholicism. Why are Anglican churches so feeble? Perhaps the celibacy row serves in the Catholic Church to weed out the most feeble.

The priestesses in the Anglican Church are very hot on love and forgiveness, at least from the pulpit. Again, it is not too obvious in their lives. But what kind of woman wants to be a priest? All too often, it is a woman who wants power. Feminine women are not much in evidence amongst the priestesses.

The churches today focus on man, not God. It is all about building communities, playing happy families. Questions of right and wrong, morality, especially in business and the world of wealth creation are carefully skirted. Growing churches need wealthy benefactors.

Is God real? No, not to most churches. The priesthood is a career, usually fairly comfortable in the West, but some kid themselves it is a vocation, at least for a while. It is notable that the opposition to the liberalism of the Anglican Church in England and America comes from the poorest countries of Africa.

Is God real? My research over the past 22.8 years shows scientifically that the answer to that question is Yes. The signs abound. Time and again, God tries to speak to man. Man doesn’t listen.

It is clear that even for our beloved Panzer Cardinal, now elevated to Pope, God is not real. If God were real to him, how could he have been responsible for trying to hide the sexual abuse scandals of his Church for decades?  There was no question of ‘Living in Truth’ with him. 'Hide damaging scandal. It might disturb the faithful. To hell with the young lives that are damaged and destroyed.'  That seems to have been his watchword.  But note that it is not to hell with the priests responsible…… The Panzer Cardinal got his reputation from crushing truth and dissent, just as the Panzers crushed everything in their path.

Only a few weeks ago, the Panzer Pope issued another of his homilies and urged people to ‘listen to the voice of the earth’…..his plea on global warming. Note that he does not urge people to listen to the Voice of God, as exhibited in so many disasters over the past two decades. But perhaps he never discerned the Voice of God in them or in anything else. Perhaps he only discerned self-interest and the interests of Holy Mother Church. He did not see that the interests of the great Church are only served by considering the interests of the lowest, the lowly, abused parishioner, choirboy or nun. The real interests of the Catholic Church, as particularly exemplified by its now notorious offshoot Opus Dei,  remain unchanged.  What matters to the Roman hierarchy is the accumulation of earthly wealth and power. So the Roman Emperor is truly that in both name and purpose.  Only the adjective Holy should be omitted.

He did not tell people to listen to the Voice of God, because he does not hear it himself. He does not hear the Voice of God in the world at large. There are curious parallels in the film What Dreams May Come.

For the Panzer Pope, the answer to that question, ‘Is God real?’ is No!  But the Church of Rome is real and that is all that matters. The fact that it worships a false saviour god and his mother is irrelevant. The Pope has made it plain that all churches apart from Rome are in error. But why exclude Rome?

Another reason for not exhorting people to listen to the Voice of God lies in not wanting to suggest to people that they can do without priests. If they could hear the Voice of God for themselves and see His Hand in the world, what need would they have of priests offering false pardons, which are not in their gift.

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It is curious how Dan Brown has woven his novel Angels and Demons around the death of a Pope and the resulting Conclave. It should be thought-provoking in how many ways that novel cross-linked with the real world in 2005 and then back through history, precisely 503 years. If you have read Angels and Demons, you will realise that Code 503 is the key code at the heart of that novel, the link to The Diagrams of Truth.  If you haven't read it, now may be a good time.  It is a better novel than its much vaunted sequel The da Vinci Code.  However that novel has very many links to the real Alpha and Omega Codes.

To read more about this particular conjunction of Rome and the event which led to the foundation of the Church of England 503 years earlier, see  Lines of Kings