“God Was Born Out Of Hope”

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What is God?
Gopinath: God is a creation of man, born from the imagination and created when all other living mortals failed him. There had to be someone who could be the provider, so God was born out of hope, loneliness, despair, yearning, desires and the need for love. God was created for joy, pleasure, sharing, reaching out and trusting. Man’s God is of epic proportions, so that one would come along and create a larger Being!

God or the Big Bang (or both)?
Gopinath: God, before the Big Bang.

God or Darwin (or both)?
Gopinath: Darwin and Darwin’s God (you may need to hand over these interview questions to him!)

God or Darfur ? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Gopinath: Darfur will create many more Gods!

Who is God’s God?
Gopinath: Probably a Mother, the life-giver on earth, the nurturer, the caretaker, a loving being on earth. God too has many Gods!

Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Gopinath: Oh they are all standing up, respectively, in every creator’s mind. But each one of us can only see the God we have personally created and not the Gods whom others have produced from their imaginations. The trouble begins when we compare notes: “My God is….your God is….”

Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Gopinath: Quite unlikely, since man felt the need and created God.

Unexplained phenomena = God?
Gopinath: Unexplained phenomena = think hard, think, learn, browse, ask, discuss, probe, dwell, whatever. This is not God. Miracles happen because our mind is not ready to accept what was bound to happen anyway.