Raja Petra Kamarudin
Yes, Christians and Muslims do not believe in God. They may believe that there is a God or they may believe in the existence in God, but that does not mean they believe in God. And I find that the majority of Christians and Muslims do not believe in God.
It is like this. You can see me. You can touch me. You can hear me. So, because of that, you believe I exist. But do you believe in me? Now that is another question altogether. If I were to tell you that I will return to Malaysia and will lead a Third Force to clean up Malaysian politics because both sides, Barisan Nasional as well as Pakatan Rakyat, suck, will you believe in me?
So, you may believe I exist because you can see, feel and hear me, the evidence is in front of you, but that does not mean you believe in me or have faith in me — at least not yet, not until I can prove that once I return to Malaysia I will be able to lead the Third Force to clean up Malaysian politics and abolish the silly race and religion politics that both sides of the political divide are playing.
Hence most Christians and Muslims believe in God (meaning in the existence of God) but do not believe in God (meaning having faith in God). And the irony of this whole thing is they do not even realise they do not believe in God. And there are just so many examples to support this argument.
For example, some Malays are against the Malay language Bible using ‘Allah’ as the word for God. Why? Well, according to them, because this might (not sure yet, but might) confuse some Muslims and will result in Muslims leaving Islam to become Christians.
Okay, good argument. Say this does happen (meaning Muslims read the Malay language Bible that uses Allah and get confused and leave Islam to become Christians). Can that happen unless God wills it? I mean, all God (meaning Allah) has to do is say ‘be’ and it shall be. That is what Islam tells us. Hence if Muslims read the Bible and convert to Christianity is this not what God wants?
You may say this is not what God wants. How do you know? Did you ask God? Did God tell you this? You are just guessing. If God does not want Muslims converting to Christianity then God has enough power to make sure this does not happen. And if it does happen then it can only happen with the will of God. Nothing happens unless God wills it.
I believe Muslims calls this ‘takdir tuhan’ and they accept takdir tuhan. Those who lament over takdir tuhan are considered kufur because you just do not lament or question God’s will. In fact, Islam does not even allow you to wail during funerals because death is takdir tuhan and to wail over a death means you are displeased with God taking that life.
At least this is what true Muslims believe.
Would earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., happen unless God wills it? And why does God take so many lives in all sorts of natural disasters and accidents? Can we curse God for His cruelty? What type of God is this that kills hundreds or thousands of people in just one incident? Is this the God you want to worship? Is this the God you want to love, a God that does not love us in return and brings disasters upon us? To hell with that type of God!
No. That is not how we handle this. God knows what He is doing. God knows why hundreds or thousands of innocent people have to die in one go. This is God’s will. God is not cruel. This is God’s plan and we should not curse God and lament His actions because that would just make us kufur and is not the word kafir or infidel from the word kufur?
So there you have it. That is how true Muslims are supposed to think. Only then will you be a true believer in God. You believe in God and you do not question God’s wisdom and you accept God’s decision however unfavourable it may appear because life and death is for God to decide and how and when we die is for God to determine and for us to accept.
God made some of us Christians and some of us Muslims (as well as some of us Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and whatnot). And even those that God made Christians and Muslims, He divided us into many denominations and sub-groups. And because we are do divided into many groups and sub-groups we hate each other and kill each other.
God is supposed to just say ‘be’ and it shall be. Nothing is supposed to happen unless God wills it. So, if we are divided into so many religious groups and sub-groups is this not what God wanted? If God did not want this would it have happened? All God has to do is say ‘be’ and we all would have been born into just one religion and not in so many religions.
When I hate you because you are of a different religion to mine am I, therefore, not hating God? You are what you are because of God. God made you into what you are. So, if I hate you because of what you are, that means I hate God as well.
Why is God so silly for making you different from me and for making you believe differently from me? Does God not know this will only create bad-will on earth? Why did God not create goodwill and peace amongst humankind by making sure we are all born into one single religion? Is this the mark of a wise and clever God? Just make sure we are all born as Hindus and no one would hate and kill each other.
I don’t think this God that we believe in, love, and worship, is too clever. All the problems we are facing could have been avoided if there were no Malays, Chinese, Indians and other natives and no Muslims, Christians and whatnot.
No, God is not silly, at least religionists who believe in the existence of God believe. God knows what He is doing. And everything that happens in this world happens only because God allows it or wills it. And we are born into different races and different religions because this is what God wants. The only problem is we are not happy with God. We do not agree with what God did. And because of that we hate those who God made of different races and different religions.
Hence we do not really believe in God. We cannot accept what God did because we cannot accept those who are of different races and of different religions. We reject God by rejecting God’s creations that are different from us and who believe differently from us.
If we really believe in God we would accept God’s action and decision. And we would embrace God’s creations never mind how different they may be from us because surely God did not play a sick joke on us by creating us just so that we can hate and kill each other.
When someone dies, Muslims are supposed to say, “From God we came and to God we return.” We do not say, “Fuck you God! How will I feed the children now that you have taken away the only breadwinner in the family?”
But when we deal with fellow humans of another race who has a different religious belief from us we say, “Fuck you God! Why did you allow the Chinese and Indian infidels to come to our country?” Well, maybe we did not quite say it exactly in those words but the hate in what we say means just that.
Christians and Muslims hate gays. Where did these gays come from? Well, they came from where we also came from, God. Why did God create gays? Surely God could have created us all ‘straight’? Did God make a mistake? If so then God is not really as great as we thought. Or did God purposely create gays so that we can have someone to hate and put to death?
Christians and Muslims believe they know what the truth is while everyone else is in the dark and has not seen the light. And, because of this belief, Christians and Muslims are damn arrogant, condescending, self-righteous, and extremely judgemental. They believe they are the chosen ones while all others are condemned. And this is because they do not believe in God.
Honestly, Christians and Muslims are the worst people on earth.
