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CHAPTER 28. SCIENCE PLUS RELIGION – THE DYNAMIC FORMULA FOR THE FUTURE
They nagged Him for centuries. And all kinds of religious people, in all languages, nagging a single
poor God – He must have committed suicide His suicide is more probable than a natural death. He
cannot die a natural death; He must have committed suicide
But those people are still after Him. Even in H;s grave He will be tossing and turning, because the
Catholic is shouting in His ear, the Protestant is shouting in His ear, and then come the witnesses
of Jehovah, who can drive anybody nuts. All these people, all around the world, day and night, year
in, year out, just after one single poor old God. These people must have provoked the desire for
suicide in Him.
It is a known fact that God never created anything after He created man. I have been wondering
why Why did He stop with man? Up to man’s creation; everything was good. The horses were
not becoming monks. The donkeys were not becoming priests. The monkeys were not declaring
themselves popes. God was happy. It is said that He created each thing and said, ”Good” – just the
way I say, ”Good.” He must have learned it from me because I don’t know anybody else who says
good the way I say good. But when He created man He didn’t say that.
He must have lost His nerve – ”What have I done?” – because immediately man must have created
the business of the so – called religions. He must have grabbed His feet immediately: ”God, my
Lord....” Since then nobody has heard about Him, where He is.
Either He escaped to the farthest star – and physicists say those stars are running farther away;
perhaps it is because of God.
Those stars are not static there. That was the idea up to this century, that the stars are static there,
far away, but they are there. Now physicists say that they are not there. Where you see the stars
in the night, there they may have been millions of light-years ago. The light has reached your eyes
tonight, but light takes time to travel.
Where you see a certain star tonight. one thing is certain: it is not there. It may have been sometime
far, far back – perhaps when the earth was not made, when even your solar system was not in
existence, the star was there. That day the light started moving towards the non-existent earth and
the non-existent sun, and it has arrived today. This much time it took to reach. Meanwhile the star
is not sitting there. The light is coming towards you and the star is going farther away with the same
speed as light – that is, at one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second the light is coming
towards you and the star is going away from the point where it was.
Perhaps God is riding on the farthest star and running as fast and as far away as possible from all
these prying monks and religious people and churches, temples, mosques, synagogues. But it is
good to say that there is no God, it saves God all the trouble. And one day it will save man also from
this stupid obsession.
The religious man has no obsession.
His life is simple, natural, spontaneous, moment-to-moment. He has no great ideas that he wants to
bring to the world. He has no great ideologies that he wants to impose on humanity.
From Ignorance to Innocence 417 Osho