Why I Would Hate Being Omniscient

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Listening to the radio, hearing great music, I hate the interruption several times a day for a religious spokesperson to spout a few minutes of moralistic drivel to help us become better human beings. Atheists and non-religious commentators never get to join in. This is blatant discrimination, a way of convincing people that only believers in God can be moral spokes-people. The other day, the wisdom included a vicar talking about having to say not just his own prayers but also presenting a list of prayers requested by his congregation, as though the people talking directly to God about their wants and desires doesn’t count – they need a religious leader to act as a more authorative go-between. Among the prayers requested through him were those for a man suffering from Haemorrhoids. That makes me both laugh and cringe. I felt sorry for any omnipotent omniscient being as seeing literally all means seeing every haemorrhoid, zit, wart, carbuncle, every bum scratching moment, unflushed lavatory, every use of the toilet, every moment of nose-picking and all of our other revolting habits. As God is literally supposed to be everywhere he is one hundred percent in all those things too. Yeuch! Would a God who can’t be bothered ending a famine in Rwanda, genocides in Eastern Europe or the atrocities committed by ISIS, take the trouble to concern himself with a man with piles in Burnley? The Bible says God answers all prayers for believers, in which case there should be lots of millionaires, no more suffering, and all the paedophiles would already be in Hell. God is no more able to answer prayers than I am – my limitations are due to me existing only in a finite form for a finite time. God’s lack of response to the need of the Haemorrhoid sufferers is due to him existing nowhere, for no time. If you do have Piles, go to your doctor who will prescribe Preparation H or some such. God is in no position to care, and like me, he would rather not look. Also worth noting if you do believe in a creator – God created everything, so he therefore created Haemorrhoids too. Gee, thanks God. Arthur Chappell