This is Important

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/decline-extreme-poverty-perspective/

Truth.

"For thousands of years, philosophers, thinkers and prophets have besmirched money and called it the root of all evil. Be that as it may, money is also the apogee of human tolerance. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money is the only trust system created by humans that can bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation. Thanks to money, even people who don’t know each other and don’t trust each other can nevertheless cooperate effectively." - Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Random Thoughts on God (which probably only make sense to me)

In The Big Think Book, on the section of religion, Cave introduces many puzzles regarding the paradox of the "existence" of God (or devil). For example, the paradox of the irresistible force, Newcomb's paradox, or that of atheists more likely to go to heaven than believers*.

Although these puzzles raise many questions about what we conceive as God, are we really looking at these issues through the right lens?

What if we were an experiment performed by an extraterrestrial being?

Consider this thought experiment:

Imagine what a worm thinks of human civilisation. I'll tell you what it thinks about everything we've invented and created. Nothing! It's absolutely inconceivable for a worm to understand human knowledge. Yet, if God is an infinite power, an almighty being, how are we to ever conceive the thoughts that run through God's mind (If a mind in God's realm actually exists)? Remember, our menial minds are limited by our 5 senses and essentially the whole universe (literally 95% of it). Any reasoning of imagining God through the limitations of our brain then becomes obsolete.

Side note: It does concern me, however, what if God was simply an alien species more intelligent than us running some sort of experiment and we're just in a zoo?

Eternity in the Multiverse

What if there are many other universes out there? Then it may be the case that other universes follow completely different laws of physics with completely different dimensions. If that were the case, then that would mean that space-time is a dimension limited to our universe. But we barely have the capability of understanding the laws of nature in our own universe, how are we to ever get around to understanding others without any observation? Consider this, if our laws of physics are limited to our universe, then that must mean what we consider space-time exists only in our universe. 

Now if God exists outside the realm of our dimensions of space and time,  then is it necessarily difficult for God to be an "eternal being?" where time is simply seen as a basic dimension? We say that God knows all and can see the past, present and future. If an observer witnesses our universe outside the realm of time, then it may be the case that the observer can experience the past, present and future all at once. We are limited in our ability because we live in the dimension of time

So maybe when we die, we do go on to "live" for eternity if it's the case that we leave the realm of space and time.

But this does lead to my next issue

God as an infinite power

If God is outside of the realm of space and time, then does such a being actually "exist"? The problem with this concept is that saying that God "exists" makes God a finite figure, just like saying infinity "exists" limits it to a finite thing. Or as Cave mentions "opening and closing a book at the same time". The statements become meaningless. So the idea of the irresistible force paradox similarly becomes obsolete.

Yet we still try to imagine and explain the world through God's "existence", not understanding that by actually doing so will cause our petty little brains to collapse into a black hole.

Side note:If it is the case of infinity and the lack of "existence", maybe God is simply the idea of mathematics?

Closing remarks

These arguments don't really have to be interpreted in support for there to be a "God". However, if God is outside our realm of understanding (or in the idea of mathematics), then our perspectives of morality, of right and wrong being determined by God becomes void. Should we then be living life without concern for the existence and non-existence of a God figure?

*This idea is based on the paradox that if being objectively moral gets you to heaven, then moral atheists also go to heaven. But if you are moral in order to get to heaven, then you're not necessarily moral for being moral, and thus won't be going to heaven.

In the words of Rusting Cohle from True Detective

-"If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of s***. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible."

Update:

Maybe we're just in a simulation?