When you think you have found a statement by a philosopher that is obliviously absurd, says Martin Gardener, you have not understood the statement. Now read the following text very carefully.
--------------------------------------- Because so many people, so many books for so many centuries have believed in God – the belief must be true. Who am I to question beliefs? I just want to strengthen them. You believe in one God, there are many, I say. I have proofs though they might not sound logically convincing to you but to me they are as logical as the existing arguments about a single god is.
Axiom 1: As an existing God is superior to one who does not exist similarly many gods are superior to One that exists.
Axiom 2: If one God is great then imagine the combined greatness of all the gods.
In the following paragraphs I will show you how it is impossible for one God to run not only earth but also the entire universe. And while reading on if you cannot make head and tail of this article then consider reading the first few lines again.
There are something like 1011 suns in our galaxy and so far we have observed 109 galaxies. That makes 1020 suns in our universe. Assuming that one in a million of these suns are part of some kind of solar system and again one in a million of those solar systems have a planet like earth and if each of those planets have one God, then the number of gods is very closed to what we have in Indian mythology.
Now think of one single God dealing with our universe. There are more than one billion Indians on our planet, imagine the plight of rest of the living beings on this earth as well as in rest of the solar systems across the galaxies. How does our God communicate? Let us assume that our God uses radio-telecommunication but can he trust the operators? You, on this earth, do not trust the operators for simple things in life. How can a God trust somebody specially when he is dealing with sensitive topics of salary hikes, promotions, life and death etc. etc.? There are chances of mistake, chances of corruption, chances of your requests not reaching to your managers. God really cannot take chances. Tell me, would you trust a God who takes chances? I will not and you also should not. It is completely logical to assume that our God is not tech savvy. In this scenario, to deal with whole universe, the only solution is numbers. Solve problem locally instead of globally, at least one God for each planet. Imagine one God travelling in this universe from one planet to other. Even if he travels with the speed of light, he will take billions of light years to reach from one corner of the universe to the other with the assumptions that he can avoid black holes as well as the clever asuras like Bhasmasur and company. Thus I conclude here- God never travels from one corner of the universe to the other. There are localised gods and if at all our gods need to communicate, they communicate on one-to-one and need-to-talk basis.
Now if you think this is all mumbo jumbo and earth is the only planet inhabited by living beings in this entire universe, I can still prove that there are many gods. If billions of human beings and millions of tiny winy life forms were at the mercy of one single God, situation on this planet would have been worse than a government hospitals across this country. While the mighty trinity is in charge of the life’s ever-prevalent cycle on our planet, a multitude of other gods exist for each personality or profession. We have a God for kings; we have a God for poor. We have a God for warriors; we have a God for scholars. We have a God for healers; we also have a God for the druggies of this world. If you think you have an attitude, you have a God to match it with too. So if you study, worship Goddess Saraswati otherwise if uneducated and busy in tilling the land, please Lord Indra for rain and then pray to Goddess Laxmi for prosperity. Basically you require gods for everything. The fact that sundry humans inhabit our earth makes me believe in the many-gods-theory.
I know some of you may find this piece of writing blasphemous and some may find it humorous but a time will come when all of you will call it theology. Amen!
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