Religion is a Mental Illness

“The single best argument against the tired old ‘the universe is so complex that it MUST have a creator’ is simply this: then who created the creator

Surely a being that is able to create an entire universe must be even more complex than the universe he created?

So it stands to reason that, if complexity means that something MUST have been created, then the creator must also have a creator.

And the creator of the creator must in turn also have a creator.

Ad infinitum.”

-- Anneke Beunen

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Satan comes to one of you and says, 'Who created so-and-so? 'till he says, 'Who has created your Lord?' So, when he inspires such a question, one should seek refuge with Allah and give up such thoughts."

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "People will not stop asking questions till they say, 'This is Allah, the Creator of everything, then who created Allah?' "

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah may peace be upon him) observed:

The Satan comes to everyone. of you and says: Who created this and that? till he questions: Who created your Lord? When he comes to that, one should seek refuge in Allah and keep away (from such idle thoughts).

“A creator god-perhaps as in, May the Force Be with you-leaves you with an undefined source of energy that touched everything off.

But this a far cry from the god imagined in the Bible.

You can't leap from a Great Engineer to an intensely personal God who hears prayers.

There need be no connection whatever between the two.”

-- David Madison

“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause.

If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument.”

-- Bertrand Russell