Your god is not omniscient.

It’s a part of non-religious life, now, that your religious counterparts seek to ‘inform’ you that you are wrong in your outlook of life. We are told that non-belief is inherently flawed. A contradiction.

Of course, the opposite is true — by their own definition, no less.

Let me explain as succinctly as possible, because I have no desire to harp on a point I feel should be obvious.

The claim is made that this divine being is omniscient and omnipotent. The people that claim this profess to believe in it themselves and devote much thought to it, but somehow fail to see the logical error that arises from it.

I shall assume that being able to understand how my mind works comes under one of the sections of “omniscient” or “omnipotent.” This divine being, then, who values free will and intimately understands the thought processes that led me to think this way, should have no issue with my choices in faith, or lack thereof. Why would they?

By comparison, I should dislike a tiger disemboweling me for standing naked in front of it even though as a more intelligent being I understand it is a natural predator and sees me as prey (the intelligence of showing off your assets to wild animals notwithstanding). I do wish the tiger didn’t have homo-sapien-cidal tendencies, but me wishing so won’t stop it eating me.

It is in our nature to question, to be curious, nature to rationalise how we see fit, and if you’re religious (or to be more precise, a Creationist), then all that is the direct product of how you were designed. Would an engineer blame their own invention for a mistake in its wiring? Would a chef condemn his gravy to hell because he forgot to add the sugar, spice and everything nice?

Ridiculous, isn’t it.