Some vagrant thoughts about the "supreme"
I'm sure philosophers before me have already thought this out (not that I consider myself as one). But, as always, I like being difficult.
I consider myself an agnostic. Not going to explain what that is. But, growing up in an orthodox family, I've sort of done the obvious by moving myself towards the other side. Perhaps to understand what it is to live outside of the religious box.
Supreme-ness of the God:
Well, I suppose its reasonably logical thought. That if you are a God, you wouldn't have to answer to anyone. Thus, you are it.. no other Gods can exist - otherwise you wouldn't be God. That is, if in case you choose to define the God-liness as a trait that is unique - a supreme being. Supreme being a superlative, you can't have two supremes (well I thought there were three.. but.. hey..).
Getting a raise..
What does it matter now that you've figured out that only one supreme being can exist. In fact, following some more logical thoughts, I think it matters less.
So, say you are a good hardworking employee in a company. Now, say you want a raise. You would petition your boss, who might laugh at you, in which case you might have the gumption to go to his boss and see if you can get something out of him. However, your first thought of the day when you wake up going "damn! I need a raise for all the hard excellent work I'm doing", is not, "I'm going ta go up to that almighty CEO and ask him for a raise!". Because you know, while there is an open door policy with a lot of companies, your CEO doesn't know you or your work enough to give you a raise - even if he might take it upon himself to be bothered with it.
I hear you all now.. right right.. god hears all our prayers and all that.. right right.. and CEOs are not gods and therefore can't be compared.. yes yes all that.
Taking it one step further..
So, if you humor me on the logic that God like CEO may not be able to hear all your pleas, then, what are we left with? The logical next step (at least in my opinion) is that he's given the job of listening to one of his cronies. Maybe like a manager for worldly affairs. So, now obviously having limited space-time issues he's got a large number of such cosmic managers. Some taking care of nature of the universe some doing the necessary sunday-night trash removal, some sun creators, destroyers all that jazz. There's got to be a whole huge platoon of god-lets to manage all that. That is assuming that there are more worlds just like ours - not assuming that would be a bit self-inflating.
Now, since they are god-lets, they can't always be unerring and perfect. So they must have their screw ups too.. like "oops that planet wasn't supposed to go towards the sun" and kill a gazillion souls.. "oh well back to the drawing board.. and hush don't tell God I did that.. i'll get a thorough thrashing..". If the idea of god-lets is not appealing, lets just say that there have to be beings more advanced than man, but not as advanced as God. And I'm sure they can do god-like things, that to us are indistinguishable from the real thing (who knows maybe we're some god-let kid's 8th grade ant-farm experiment).
What the hell am I trying to say?
For an entity that does not manifest itself in any measurable manner, God does get a lot of credit. We apply it just like one would use caulk to fill gaps. Anywhere there is something inexplicable we caulk God into that. Its just that easy.. why did I have a stomach ache? well god wanted me to learn about not eating 14 hot dogs all at the same time. What will happen to bad people? god will punish them (knowing that *you* are incapable of affecting the "bad" people's lives, but are suddenly willing to make the all-forgiving-one spank the bad people for your sake), who made the teacher trip and lose all the exam questions? god did.. because I hadn't studied at all but I prayed for something to happen..or the more thought provoking ones like how was the universe created? .. i don't know.. oh.. so it must have been god! what about the internet? oh well that was Al Gore.. and so on and so forth..
... okay, that didn't really have the "point".. so what is the point..?
So, if our reality (such as the CEO-employee analogy) were to be stretched into the God realm, we'd be looking at a bunch of managers that may not have the right incentive to do the best job. And any tidying that needs to be done always requires energy, the natural order of things is to become un-tidy. Just like a kid will clean up the room given the incentive that he *won't* get a spanking. But, in general, all ordered things over time tend to become disordered (that's the logic behind idea of "entropy"). So if this world has a lazy manager, it will become "untidy" over time.
So, what I'm getting at is that whilst there maybe a supreme being, he probably has no time between his crack in the space-time continuum meeting and twisted wormhole problems going on in his life, for problems you pray to him for. And maybe it makes you feel good to pray - which is a great reason to pray, but as a logical sort of a person I can't get myself to think that there's someone up there - or down, there's no up/down in space - listening - other than some snot nosed god-let-kid doing his cosmic ant-farm project for his homework.
In upcoming episodes (oh god, he's got more.. god please make him shut up) I might discuss other varieties of god-logic I cook up.