As If God Would Care

In a recently released survey in the USA by Public Policy Polling (PPP) it was found that only 52 percent of American voters approve of God’s performance, while nine percent disapprove and 40 percent are just not sure.

A survey about God’s performance? And not only that, the pollsters asked people’s opinion about God creating the universe. 71% approved, while 56% approved his handling of animals, and 50% his handling of natural disasters.

What insane questions are these? Apparently the same polling folks recently found out that 44% of Republicans thought President Barack Obama would not be taken to Heaven in the Rapture, while 37 percent were not sure.

Curioser and curioser. But wait: The most recent survey also determined that “only 12 percent held a favorable opinion of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. ‘Though not the most popular figure PPP has polled, if God exists, voters are prepared to give it good marks,’ PPP noted. ‘Voters approve of God’s performance by 52-9 margin, making God about as popular as Murdoch is unpopular.’”

Comparing God with Murdoch? I just wonder why these polls are conducted and what they are supposed to prove? Usually polls are held for marketing purposes or about politics and elections. Why is God being pulled into this?

I am quite intrigued about this obsession to verify the existence of god to the point of lunacy. Osho speaks about inference:

“There are people who say, “God exists because if God is not there, who will create the world? God must exist because the world exists.”

Just the other day I was reading a story about a rabbi. Must have been utterly unenlightened. Rabbis are like that — priests. A man came to the rabbi. The man was an atheist, and he said, “I don’t believe in God, and you talk about God. What is the proof?” And the rabbi said, “You come after seven days, and come wearing a new suit.” The man said, “But what does that have to do with my question?” The rabbi said, “It has something to do with it. You just go to the tailor, prepare a new suit, and come after seven days.”

The man came, reluctantly, because he could not see any relationship between his question and the answer that had been given. But he still came; he was wearing a new suit. The rabbi said, “Who has made this suit?” And the man said, “Have you gone mad? What type of a question are you asking? Of course the tailor.” The rabbi said, “The suit is here; it proves that the tailor exists. Without the tailor the suit would not be here. And so is the case with the world. The world is here: there must be a tailor to it, a creator.

This is inference.”

Osho, The First Principle, Ch 1