“A small gap rests between the two fingers
as the most important moment in human history is about to happen
– God making contact with the first person.“

I’ve been struggling for a while to understand why God is still relevant for us.
Why so many of us continue to believe in him and why so many of us struggle to demonstrate he doesn’t exist.
Why so many of those convinced he doesn’t exist blame him for so many of our own follies…

Because we’re ‘escape artists’!

So many of us continue to smoke.
Since not everybody who smokes develops a cancer or dies of COPD – Chronic Obstrusive Pulmonary Disease, those addicted to nicotine find ways to rationalize their habit. For it’s simpler for them to hope they are among the lucky ones than to accept the fact that they’ve acted foolishly for so long. I know what I’m talking about, I’m one of these people.

Similarly, it’s a lot simpler to use God as a scapegoat than to accept full responsibility for your destiny.
The less control/resources you have, the simpler it is to ask for God’s help. To lay your fate in his hands.

‘He must have had his reasons.
The fact that I don’t know what they are doesn’t change anything.
He’s in charge, I can do nothing but accept my fate!’

Same thing for the disbelievers.
It’s simpler to blame (a) God, or (a) religion for aberrant/abhorrent behavior than to accept that human beings can be manipulated – in certain conditions – into such behavior. Into such inhuman behavior.

‘If they could have been manipulated in such a manner then I might be manipulated in the same manner.
This is not acceptable.
It’s their God/religion which is at fault. Something like this cannot happen to me.
I don’t belong to any religion – or to a different one, so I’m immune to all this.’