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CHAPTER 10. GOD – THE NOBODY EVERYBODY KNOWS
blind faith that what you are doing is the right thing. There was no suspicion in his mind, no doubt at
all that he was doing God’s work – cleaning the world of all that was not in tune with the evolution of
the superman.
You say God did not create Adolf Hitler in His own image. That raises a question: Then who created
Adolf Hitler? Are there a few other gods also? That means there is a choice; you can shop and
choose in whose shape you want to be created. You can just go into Devateerth Mall and choose
your own god: ”I want to be created in this god’s image.”
This is an old strategy of the so-called pseudo-religious people – that whatsoever is good belongs
to God, and whatsoever is bad belongs to the devil.
Then who created the devil?
God has to take responsibility at some point or other. I cannot leave Him out of it. If He says that
Adolf Hitler is being created by His enemy, the devil, okay, but who created the devil? God cannot
shirk the responsibility, shrug it from His shoulders. He must have created the devil, otherwise from
where does the devil come in? And if the devil can come from somewhere else, then anybody
can come from somewhere else. So what is the need for god to create? – creation is being done
somewhere else too. God should be told, ”You are not a monopolist, there are other potters – and
perhaps there may be better potters, because the world that you have created does not seem to be
a perfect world. And you seem to be absolutely impotent: if the devil goes on smuggling his people
into your world, what are you doing there? At least you can stop this smuggling business. And it is
going on, on a tremendously vast scale. In fact your people seem to be very few, can be counted on
one’s fingers – the devil’s people seem to be in millions.”
It is strange that God goes on sitting on His throne, gossiping with the Holy Ghost, playing with
His only begotten son, Jesus; and the devil goes on running the whole world – goes on creating
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung.... The whole of history seems to be
ninety-nine point nine percent a creation of the devil.
Then why go on giving credit to God as the creator? He may be an amateur potter – once in a while
He makes a pot – but the devil seems to be the professional. Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Nadirshah,
Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte and Ivan the Terrible – just go down through history – are
all these people not created by God? They are, but you are afraid to accept the fact because then
your God becomes almost a devil.
You say God created men like Jesus Christ, Hazrat Mohammed, Krishna and Gautam Buddha. Let
us look at these people whom you think God created. Jesus is a Jew – born a Jew, lived a Jew, died
a Jew. He had never heard the word ”Christian”, and I don’t think that he had any idea of creating
a religion called Christianity. There is no indication anywhere even to create a suspicion that he
had it in mind to create a new religion, no. His whole life he was trying to do only one thing – to be
accepted by the Jews as their messiah.
Now, the God of the Jews is a Jew, Jesus is a Jew, the high priest of the Jews is a Jew. The rabbis,
who are in the highest posts in the great temple of the Jews, are all religious people, very scholarly
and very knowledgeable. It is difficult to find more scholarly people than rabbis: their whole life is
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