So Tyrel Bramwell is looking for the lord to return. Basically admitting that the lord isn’t here, because if he was here, he obviously wouldn’t have to return would he?

So is the lord Jesus, and by Bramwell’s beliefs also therefore God?

According to the Missouri Synod website, Jesus is God.

I quote:

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod believes Jesus is exactly who He said He is. Along with the ancient Church, we confess that Jesus is true God and true man in one person. He is the Son of God who was crucified and raised from the dead for the salvation of all who trust in Him.

So in the eight short words posted on this week’s sign, Tyrel Bramwell has admitted to the world that the lord Jesus isn’t among us, and therefore, neither is god.

Quite a revelation, don’t you think?

Of course to anyone not brainwashed at an early age to believe in the mythology of Christianity, or any other religion for that matter, the fact that there isn’t a god with our best interests at heart controlling everything is plainly obvious.

For if there was a benevolent, all powerful god, we wouldn’t have one religious group in the Middle East committing genocide against a rival religious group.

The fact that so many wars and needless death throughout history can be attributed to religious beliefs was the prime reason I escaped my Christian upbringing and became an atheist.

If there was truly a god creating a perfect world for his children to live in, there’s a number of things he could have done differently so that we don’t end up slaughtering people in his name. I’ll list just a few:

• First and foremost, he should have made language universal and consistent, so that translations and interpretations did not need to be made as time went on.
• With a universal language, he should have made it explicitely clear what the rules are. Why is abortion a religious right for Jews, yet a sin for Christians? Trivially, why can’t orthodox Jews use their stove on the sabbath, and further, why is their sabbath on Saturday but Christians celebrate the holy day as Sunday? Simple things that he could easily explain if he wanted to. It would clear up a lot of disagreements if he only made the rules clear.
  Because he didn’t take that simple step, religions main function is to tribalize people, and when you get tribes, you invariably get conflict because the people in your tribe are more important than those who aren’t.
• Languages and religion create tribes which then create borders. Rather than having one planet and one people all living in harmony with nature, god set in motion a process that created borders, and those borders must be protected and fought over. Sometimes those conflicts arise because those on one side of the border have more natural resources than those on the other side. Again, god could have helped out by making sure everyone has the resources they need to live comfortable lives. But on a regular basis he decides we are better off with famines, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfire, earthquakes and floods, causing death and homelessness on a massive scale.
• As the climate crisis makes more of the planet inhabitable, and weather related disasters more common, tensions will only increase as people will be forced to migrate from some areas to areas already occupied by a different tribe. God could have provided a world where we didn’t destroy it just by living in it. He could have, but he didn’t.

It’s easy to see if you’re looking for the signs, that there isn’t a god controlling our lives and our planet. Christians have been waiting 2000 years for the lord to return. It’s futile to keep waiting, but more than that it is dangerous. Doing nothing to prevent what could easily become human extinction because god’s taking care of all of us is perilous.

It could be a nuclear strike tomorrow, or the collapse of our entire ecosystem in the next decade, but life right now on planet earth is fragile. Praying to god to fix it isn’t the answer, even if it makes you feel better for a couple of hours every Sunday.