Is God ?

There have been countless occassions that I pondered about the question. Do we have a supreme being presence in the form of 'Almighty' somewhere...
I dont have an answer so I tried to decipher this with arguments both in favour and against.

I wonder why we believe in the existence of Him (first of all doubts that came was why 'Him' and not Her or It).

If I try too look back and comprehend, Nature was the God in the earliest of civilizations; as humans believed them to be powerful forces that controlled wind, rain, Sun and others respectively. Most of the Roman gods were 'Natural' in true sense.

Since we were at their mercy we declared them as Gods and started worshipping them, to avoid their wrath. Slowly human priests realized that there is immense benefit in sticking to the side of God. The approach had many advantages. People were 'God-fearing' and avoided any wrong doings ('sins'). Also even in the absence of a ruler or a regime not many people went bersek knowing Someone is watching them. So the centres of worship flourished and definitely had some role in the keeping people civilized.

Why do we worship or pray in the first place, if God is 'God' he has the powers to understand what we think or want to say without any explicit signs. God, if is God will not like any flatteries or unending chanting, recitation of holy verses. God would want us to be good humans rather than religous people. Good humans will help other fellow humans irrespective of caste, creed, race and sex. The resources (time, energy, money etc) spent in appeasing God by worshipping and going to holy places could well be given in the service of the needy. Some of us may argue that religion is teaching all these things... I disagree.. religion may have taught all these things but it also became a dividing factor between people. More the number of religion.. more the divisions and even more the possibility of bringing all together. God would not have desired this. So many seprations under one name.


Once I have made my viewpoint clear about the need of religion I ponder upon possibility (or impossibility) of God itself.


Why are there no signs of God on recorded history (random incidents not counted) even though God has been there since ever? Why have all those mystical and magical things happened in past and dont appear now? Human soul requires strong support during times of crisis atleast. It it this time that most of us actually try to get more close to God, wishing all their worries will just fly away.



Please do not mistake me. I'm not against religion or the 'Almighty'. Here I am just trying to analyse if this belief that most of us have had since childhood, handed over to us by our elders, is a meticulosly planned and evolved approach to keep people from turning back into uncivilized beasts who can be controlled only by sticks and chains.


No one seems to have the answer. We can just deliberate and conclude nothing that is logical.