If there is a God, what does he do?

With everything that’s happening all over the world today — natural disasters, climate change, violence, war, etc. — we might ask ourselves the age-old question: “But if there is a God, why doesn’t he intervene?

The no less old answer from those who call themselves atheists is that this lack of intervention simply proves that he doesn’t exist. As for a large proportion of believers, the division is between those who see in this the fulfilment of apocalyptic prophecies and those who remain dumbfounded and do not understand why all this can happen…

An infantile stage of spirituality

The fact that a large proportion of humans are still at this stage simply proves that, despite all the avatars, despite all the sacred texts, despite all the crimes committed in the name of God, humans are still at the infantile stage of spirituality…

And yet… reality seems so simple to decipher… Instead of asking “But what is God doing?” we should have had the lucidity to ask “But what is Man doing? Let us ask ourselves lucidly what we have been doing since we were entrusted with the keys to the kingdom and the power that goes with them… This marvellous and appalling power is called “free will”. How have we used it all these years, all these centuries, all these millennia and perhaps more?

All you have to do is open your eyes and see the results. It’s so obvious. What we see around us is the faithful projection of our way of managing life, our life. We invented everything: suffering, torture, barbarism, war, violence, discrimination, etc.

God doesn’t care about anything

Let’s not blame ourselves on an imaginary “Creator”… Our car accidents are due to faulty driving, not manufacturing defects. I’m going to be blunt, but I’ll say that God doesn’t care… Yes, he doesn’t care because we don’t care for him.

We are the ones who choose to shed blood. We are the ones responsible for unhappiness and sadness. It is well known that the sun rises on the just as well as on the unjust. Divine intelligence is neither a judge nor an arbiter. The days follow one another and God does not intervene because that is not his role.

We are the ones who created the idea of “divine punishment”. The only possible punishments are human, so they are self-punishments. It is humanity as a whole that suffers through those who suffer. Who punishes women in the name of God because they do not wear the veil? Who punishes one ethnic group in the name of another. Who reaps the rewards of an oil spill or any other pollution. Who deregulated the climate… And in the name of what, in the name of what ideology, in the name of what weakness, of what hypocrisy…

Where do these dualities come from?

We are capable of the best and the worst, that’s our marvellous and horrible freedom of choice. It’s not up to God to decide, because he’s not a despot like we’d like him to be to decide and take sides in our differences.

Coming from Unity, it is we who have created all the dualities that run our world. They are not divine rules. There is no monopoly on poverty, caste, colour, talent, intelligence or stupidity. Evil is not a divine creation, it is the result of a choice made by humans. By us.

And yet, the recipe for unity has been repeated over and over again: “Love your enemies”… This injunction does not say “Take sides with one side”, that has nothing to do with unity… Taking sides is based on the idea of domination by one side over the other… This is obvious. Does domination correspond to a definition of peace or harmony?

Am I capable of loving my enemies?

There’s no point in praying or meditating for peace, no point in asking, “But what is God doing?” All we have to do is ask our hearts, “Am I capable at this moment of loving my enemies,” of forgiving even the most unacceptable crimes?

And at that moment, I have to realise that it’s not my enemies that are at stake, but my own inner world, my own biology, my own psychic equilibrium?

The mirror of the world remains indifferent to the images it reflects, so let’s not expect it to react when things are monstrous. If our heart can be capable of wounding or killing when it deems it right, it must also be capable of healing or resurrecting despite the apparent injustice, to complete the vital circle…

And the idea of God is only there to allow healing and resurrection to take place naturally when we have decided that it is possible and we agree to hand over to him and say:

“Thy will be done, not mine…”.