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CHAPTER 17. JESUS, THE ONLY FORGOTTEN SON OF GOD
God is not a hypothesis, cannot be a hypothesis, because the very word hypothesis takes the ground
from beneath His feet. God is not to be proved. If science has to prove God then the scientist
becomes higher than God. The poor God will be just like a white rat. So you play around and make
boxes, and God moves from one box to another, and you find out how much intelligence God has.
Delgado, the psychologist, will be very happy to find God in a mousetrap, because all that
psychologists have found about man is not about man, it is about mice. They first find out about
the mice, and then they project it onto human beings – because it looks inhuman to dissect a human
being, to torture him and to experiment upon him.
But it is very strange that the mouse gives clues which help to understand the human mind, human
psychology. Certainly man is more developed. You can extrapolate but the basic idea you can get
from a mouse.
God, according to the pseudo-religions, is the creator of the whole of existence. According to them,
we are His creation. To make God a hypothesis means from now onwards He is going to be our
creation. We are trying to reverse the roles, putting the creator as a creature and the creature as
the creator. The pseudo-religions will not agree. I also do not agree, but our disagreements are
basically different.
They cannot agree because God is above everything; nobody can be above God. The scientist
has to be an observer, above, to watch, and then God becomes just a plaything in his hands. He
will put electrodes in God’s mind. He will have remote control so whenever he wants, God laughs;
whenever he wants, God weeps; whenever he wants, God runs; whenever he wants, God stops.
The pseudo-religions cannot agree for this reason: that God is not a creature, not a thing; He is the
creator. He has made you, you cannot be above Him, in no way.
My disagreement is that even for something to be a hypothesis a certain probability is needed –
not certainty, but at least a probability. God is not even probable. My reasons are totally different.
A scientist starts with a hypothesis because he sees some probability in it, some possibility, some
potentiality.
God is only a word without any substance in it; a hollow word with no meaning at all.
Perhaps we have to interpret the Bible a little differently. It says, ”In the beginning was the word, the
word was with God, the word was God.” In this reference perhaps it is true, that the beginning of God
is nothing but a word. And then the word starts gathering moss around it; as time passes people
go on giving more and more meaning to it. What meaning they give to the word is their need. You
should remember it.
God is all-knowing, because man has felt in every direction that his knowledge is very limited – just a
little light, a candlelight throwing a small circle. Beyond that circle all is darkness; and that darkness
creates fear. Who knows what it contains? Somebody is needed who knows. If he is not present,
he has to be invented.
God is an invention of man’s own psychological need.
From Ignorance to Innocence 230 Osho