Open Letter To God Almighty (philosophical essay) (ePub)

In English. Contents | 0. Why a letter to hardly existing God? | 1. What God means, and why we need Him? | 2. Why the living matter was created? | 3. Why this bottom-up method? | 4. To what purpose is everything? | 5. Bye-bye, God, or a new miracle | APPENDIX: If I Were God | | And a bit from 0. Why a letter to hardly existing God? | My dear God, | I may be an atheist and may not believe in existence of divine beings, but this is a matter of /believing/, this proves nothing! So that don't be put astray by such simple arguments for nearly imbeciles because I am an intelligent being, and the question of You existence must not change the rules of politeness; besides, I am not questioning Your reasonable, even super-reasonable behaviour, I am questioning only Your existence as some substance or entity, so to say. So that I must have some reasons for writing to You, surely, and even if You are bound to know everything about everything, hence also this trifle of reasons for writing of one more letter, I will explain my intentions, because, well, let's say because of Your subordinates, they may not bother to pass this letter to Your Supremacy (although there are other reasons to which I am coming). | One may say that I am writing to You because I pose some very important questions to You, which can be of interest for everybody, so that You may show a wish to write some New Testament or the like where to answer these and many other questions, what is probable, this letter of mine can be used in this way, yet You will quickly understand that this is not the real reason, because my questions are too philosophical, they are not such that a common worker or housewife or child will ask; these questions may be used as schedule for a meeting of some Executive Counsel of gods, if You have had such a thing, but I'm afraid that You haven't, You must be the sole master there. Or You can accept the letter as a kind of prayer or confession, or the like, what each believer can do sometimes, surely, yet I am /not/ a believer, as I said; and even if I will some day become a believer in You (or some other god) I will never begin to pray, this is too debasing for me, and also utterly /undemocratic/. And also, as I hinted, I am /un/commonly clever, so that the reason for this my letter has to be more twisted and original. | If so You may be inclined to think ... | Etc. ... ||