Why is it that God is so great yet the world he created is not so great? Full of pain, wars and tears? It seems like a very simple questions and a many people will say that it’s a naive question, I can’t be the first one to ask this.. and the internet+books and minds are full of answers, only that these answers and arguments are very relative to the person stating them. To me, they don’t make sense. This world doesn’t make sense. This “God”, if there, doesn’t make sense.

I have tried really hard and I could not get to terms with the so called “God”. I have seen and actually lived myself more than one approach of life. One in which you just literally enjoy it as much as you can without even caring about all the pains and the sufferers in the world, life is mostly nice this way if you are privileged enough, you can be very religious and thankful to “God” if you’re following this approach, after all, you’re living God’s so called “bliss”. In this approach you deliberately don’t see the full picture, you accept that people are different and there’s luck and coincidence and some people have to be in pain and to be dying, it doesn’t shake you or wake you up in anyway. Your life just goes on, and with that so-called “spirituality” coming from your thankfulness to the so-called God, you are happy and you can live in this world because it’s good for you, you’re what you think “lucky” and other people’s lives just don’t matter because “God” wanted it this way and “God” will take care of it, SUPPOSEDLY!

I have seen many of this kind of people, maybe I was myself one of them at some point in my life. Very rich people who want to spoil themselves, their families and thank their good for their richness, maybe also help one or two poor people occasionally but in general, they don’t feel the pains of the world, they don’t want to. They are happy, and they want to be religiously modest to “God” in a way that we just have to accept the way things are. We can’t question God why children die and why people suffer, because God is wise, he knows what he/she is doing and this god’s wisdom also decided, somehow, that I should be rich and live this life, being indifferent to the big picture and to the world’s pains while enjoying my life. This approach in life mainly reminds me of people like those religious rich Muslims in Saudi Arabia, they can spend millions of dollars to change their shoes material to a more luxurious one, or take one of their kinds for example, who spent millions of dollars when he was once traveling to bring a golden stairs to his private royal airplane and I just don’t understand, to you, that kind, what difference does it make if the stairs of the plane are gold? you just step on them when you are leaving the plane, why would someone who’s supposedly religious, caring, spend millions of dollars on this while millions of children in his neighborhood are dying? The irony is that they call the king of Saudi Arabia the protector of God’s land or something like that. The irony too is that some of Saudi Arabia’s money comes from Pilgrimage, a religious act in which “Muslims” from all over the world spend a lot of money to go to Saudi Arabia to do some religious visiting and “rituals”. Why would they do this and spend all this money on this when people in their neighborhood are dying and why would they help the economy of a country which spoils their leaders with very unnecessary luxuries which if their value of money were spend on the world problems, our world would look much better and prettier.

I don’t mean to talk about Islam, Saudi Arabia, or their spoiled religious kings. It’s just one of the simplest and easiest to see examples of this approach in life I’ve been talking about. These people are religious, they claim they are aware of the problems and the pains of the world and they are trying to make the world better, and I think they ARE NOT. I don’t like this kind of people the most, don’t get me wrong, I don’t envy them and I definitely wouldn’t like to accumulate as much wealth as they do. It’s just that they are contradictive and abusing the resources of nature. They can have fun in better ways while trying to make more people in the world live easier.