Is there a God

Letter to the Editor, Victorville, Ca Daily Press


On July 27 equivocal atheist John Pedigo with “Infinity” disputes another reader’s contention that God is finite and created the Universe, asserting "The Universe is infinite and if he is simply calling the Universe God, then I can get behind that.” Well, as an apodictical existential pantheist I’d agree only partially. Clearly, to explain why there’s a universe requires explaining a mysterious phenom we don’t yet understand; so perhaps I can offer a basis for truth in both camps. But to claim it’s infinite entails some notions pretty hard to accept.

(I adopted the adjectives “apodictical” and “existential” because they sound impressive. However as it turns out, they’re very much appropriate by suggesting our position to be very simple and straightforward--though having gained very little credence, at first seemingly obscure and arcane.

However John, regarding infinity: If the rules are the same everywhere, intuition says the Universe can't be infinite because anything that can happen would be happening, in an infinite number of different places. That means at this very moment under identical circumstances an infinite number of Dales are communicating with an infinite number of Johns.

Also an infinite number of Letters to the Editor essentially identical to this "one," the only difference being in my first para where the semicolon is replaced by a comma. Everyday logic maintains that if there’s a God She simply wouldn’t have done it that way. We can’t entertain the idea of Creation ‘cause it’s so full of contradiction and paradox: As Mr. Pedigo sdays, “Who created God…and who created that creator?” Also we’d add, where and when, if not how?

So we maintain that no contradictions are entailed if we simply assume She’s existed forever, in one form or another. Yet why? Well then, we have to assert She’s not supernatural, She exists ‘cause She has to. Her absence, it will eventually be shown, would be impossible in any universe with even the slightest change in any natural constant. Thus She’s merely a natural body; probably nothing outside Her, It, the Universe; since there isn’t any outside. Her body is the Universe and all the activity therein Her thinking.

Then what about Good and Bad? As John maintains, "The meaning and purpose comes from man. Free will comes from mankind and can be good or evil.” Thus what’s good for one guy is awful to another: For Porky's defender, the idea of our Christian friend keeping a pig, intelligent as a 3-year-old humanoid, in a dirty pen is disgusting; but even more evil to hang him upside down and cut his throat so he painfully bleeds to death before chopping him up and eating him.

Thus, is there a God or not?. Well yes and no.

Given the ability to do near anything at all, however, will She punish me and my friends for harboring my crazy idea?

I’ll think about that as I crunch my morning bacon.