To define what is, one has to know the way of the world, one has to know how the universe functions. Many misunderstandings have flown through mankinds mutual understanding the last 5 – 7000 years. We reached peaks under the Babylonian empire, under the pharaos, peaks that were synchronized under the hellenes, in their short but wondoruos flight. But today we live in the dark ages. We tell ourselves that we are enlightened, that we are living in the age of knowledge, this is all a lie. Nothing works in our world. Take a look on Europe; fighting, rape and mismanagement is the daily course of this once amazing continent. The leaders build castles of rot, fight the people, the people are all in the clutches of tyranny and dumbing down, G-d has fallen.
It all comes down to negligence, and rot in the sphere of humanism and knowledge. Why do people not question the ideas og Nietzsche and Marx anymore? Why do we simply lumber along, turn on the television when we come home from a hard days work; because we are living in the dark ages, and we know nothing better than to embrace theoretical and practical stupidity. All we live on is bread and theater, we live to be entertained, and not to seek salvation, love, solidarity, creation or simply to embrace the man beside us whom we are strangers to, not brothers to. Brotherhood a long forgotten remnant of a distant time we only remember in our dreams.
This tide has to be turned if we are to become a human race again. It can be done by hard work and by prove. We need to fight the fight of solidarity and love, because this fight is what brings us closer to G-d.
There are many ideas of spirituality; shamanism, buddhism, judaism and christianity, metaphysics and mathematics. These are all reflections of the same idea; that there is a realm of G-d. But to understand what G-d really is, one has to undertand the theory of our time and put the theory into perspective of metaphysics.
We live in physical, biological and chemical times. The three main sciences that we believe define our world are the above. But these sciences are all rooted in the time of Mesopotamia and Egypt. They are old.
The crown of the sciences are however physics. In physics we explain the minute details of the world; that the world is created by small entities called atoms, these entities are divided into even smaller entities and so on. The beginning of our time was in a “big bang”, somehow all just started from nothing.
I disagree with some of these ideas, and agree with some of them. But to understand how physics can coexist with metaphysics, we have to go to the beginning of physics. Physics started with a philosopher called Anaxagoras. Anaxagoras lived just before Plato, and must have inspired him quite a lot. Anaxagoras was a good friend of Pericles, the famous leader of the athenian league.
Anaxagoras theories started a theoretical development, that through Democrit and Lucretius ended in what we understand as atomic physics today.
Anaxagoras has a deeper and more complex understanding of the world than we do today. According to Anaxagoras the world is build of meireas (atoms), and the world did not start with a big bang, but with the introduction of the centrifugal power. It all began in a material soup that started turning around on its own axis at a specific time.
This theory and many other developed into modern atomic physics.
Anaxagoras had a theory of what G-d was, or is. In his theory, G-d is intelligence that is all around us, penetrates everything, and slips into materia and creates, by this transformation life.
Life is the absorption of intelligence.
Now, to explain the entire theory is not really possible on a blog, (my next book explains the ideas in detail), but let me present the basic prove of G-ds existence. Perhaps you could prove me wrong.
There is one thing that is the constant in life, that is intelligence. The intelligence of live has not changed from when it was introduced into the world till today. As Anaxagoras says; the difference of life lies in the amount of intelligence that is in the creature. A plant has very little intelligence a man has very much intelligence. But the workings of the intelligence in both creatures are the same.
Now, if intelligence was created within each creature, intelligence would morph into many different things, it would not remain the same. This proves that intelligence comes from outside. It is something that is induced into life at the start of life.
G-d is the soup of intelligence we all swim around in.
You have to prove me wrong, or accept the prove.
This is the key to the reermenge of the West; the faith reborn, the faith in G-d.
This proves nothing. The first premis doesnt even make sense. Intelligence has to be defined better to be used int his way and why should it be constant and why can’t it change?. In the end you equal the result to god, this perhaps defines god, but it does in no way prove his existence.
I do not agree that people were smarter in older days (I do not assume they very any dumber btw), On what pretext can you say that people werent raped, mistreated and killed back then?
I will agree that the so called Greek Miracle has an overseen backside and not so miraculous side to it -the dualism that is deeply rooted in the western society.
Still write on! love to disagree with you. -Jens
How can I resist? Your thoughts are noble, for sure. However, intelligence as I see it, is when people have a good education, well-paid jobs and supposedly become highly successful, intelligent and intellectual, they often assume they have the right to use that intelligence to fool or take advantage of some less intelligent person, which of course is a selfish thing to do. This is always to the detriment of the ignorant person. It is always tempting to over-charge, and under-pay. So, it is safe to assume that you don’t necessarily become a good and kind person by being intelligent. Intelligence is something that is acquired after birth. It comes from your environment, family and education etc. It was put into your body and brain after you were borne. It is also safe to assume that all of it, your brain and all the things stored in it, will be eaten by worms some day when your body dies. So will your genes which many intellectuals think are so important for their intellect. Either way, it’s toast. Many intelligent people think that it is the survival of the genetically and intellectually fittest. Well, it isn’t. Both intelligence and genes are mortal and finite, and will not survive bodily dead. It is plain stupid to believe otherwise, specifically for the people who wrongly amplify their intelligence and family genes. They think that they (hopefully) live through their children. What rubbish. They justify and defend their denial and their indoctrinations with this argument instead of reality of which, they are totally unaware. Let’s assume for the sake of argument or clarity or just for fun, that the concept of Soul does exist, that your Soul is some sort of individual entity, and that the Soul continues in some form after your body dies and goes somewhere or does something.
Well about 98 % of all people on earth believe that the Soul survives and is somehow immortal. Then, by pure reason, you must also ask where did the Soul really come from? And what is its purpose so we at least can achieve it and hopefully go to heaven or whatever. Surely you are not your brain, that mushy grey matter between your ears and under your hat. Your physical brain will decompose or get eaten by worms one day, as does everything you have learned and put in your brain, including your intellect and the memory stored in the mush. As do all the genes of your body. In fact, the only thing left after your body dies, decomposes and gets eaten by worms, are the fillings in your teeth, your glass eye, if you have one…and your Soul.
You are Soul Consciousness, pure free-willed individual Consciousness, which uses and inhabits, temporarily, a genetically modified primate called Homo sapiens. And when the individual, free-willed Consciousness (Soul) that you are, manifests in the primate/Homo sapiens body, it is called man. There are no missing links. Your Consciousness is what you are. Your Consciousness (Soul) is that which continues when the primate body dies and decomposes. You can call it your Soul or your spirit, your Kahuna, or whatever. That is what you are. The primate body of Homo sapiens only becomes man when an individual Soul is in it. The primate body and intellect of man is some of the most marvellous tools on Earth, but it is only tools, and you only use the tools temporarily.
The paradox is that the religionists are basically correct; we do possess a Soul that separate from the dead physical body, even though they don’t understand or believe that the Soul came from somewhere and can come back again and again just as it did the first time. It’s the intelligent and intellectual materialists (Scientists) who are desperately wrong. Orthodox scientific teachings start from the false base that the mind and brain are the same – that conscious awareness and intellect is the same – and that dead therefore is the end of everything. Scientists erroneous think that some peculiar strand of matter evolved into Conscious awareness in some totally unexplained way, instead of accepting the fact that it was Conscious awareness that has been creating matter. Well just look around in any society, what do you se? You will se that everything is created by some body’s creative consciousness. There is not a single sliver of proof that molten lava has ever been able to evolve into any kind of conscious awareness. The real problems we face is that most people do not have any clue about the difference between intellect and Conscious awareness
In this world, the intelligent people sadly take advantage of the less intelligent ones. They call it “Brain-power” and that is what has created most of the destruction methods and systems in the world we live in. Atomic weapons, Wars, Carbon dioxide etc. Instead of being an asset, the “superior” human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction. The human species teeters on the edge, putting excess personal gratification and living for today ahead of the long-term consequences of bad behavior. It is not the good the kind or the un-intelligent people who ruin the world, it is not the conscious ones, they are not the ones we have to be worried about. It is the smart and intelligent ones, the selfish ones. With conscious awareness, when we know better, we do better, but it is not so, on an intellectual level. Mankind as a whole has clearly not done so. As the truth about the physical world dawns on you, your intellect expands, but not necessarily your conscious awareness.
Conscious awareness is of the Soul and is immortal; intellect is purely primate brain power and sensory input, both the right and the wrong input, including all your misunderstandings and superstitions. When the body dies, so does the intellect, and all the memory cells, and all the genes, and all the information in your brain. All of it will decompose and get eaten by worms. Count on it. And it doesn’t help to mummify the flesh or use cryogenic freezing. What is clearly a problem for intellectuals is the fact that the strongest bodies and brains will not survive. All bodies will die and all Souls will survive, and apparently be accountable in some way or another. The easy way to get to understand the difference between intellect and conscious awareness is to find out what really happens when the physical body dies? Does the light just go out and darkness, un-awareness and emptiness follow? Was the reason for living to no avail? Were we just flesh with intelligence like reptiles or are there more to us than that? Will something, anything, continue? Will our Soul (If we have one) go to heaven or hell (if you believe in that)? Or Whatever? Your teachers, priests and rabbis have been painfully silent on this important issue, haven’t they? In fact, they know nothing. If you want to find out about what happen when you die, ask somebody who have been dead and come back to life. Thousands of people have died in car accidents or on the operating tables and later been resuscitated by doctors or others, or for some reason or another come back to life after being clinical dead. Many have been interviewed to establish what experience they consciously had when they were “dead” and what really was happen with their awareness while their body was clinically dead. Other sources are from hypnotic past life regression and past life meditations, as well as some people who are consciously aware of what they are, and have been, as I am. All of it we call Near Dead Experiences or ‘NDE’. The following information will be helpful to the many people who face dead in the near future, which many of you will, and for you this is written. The source in this script is taken from the many people who has been dead in one way or another and been given the gift of life again, who then explained what happened on the other side of the veil. The most interesting part is the continuity of what was said by people of totally different social, cultural, racial, financial or religious backgrounds, as well as their highly different intellectual capability. Through the many long conversations, the following sentences were chosen as being the most profound and helpful information for most people, but much more is obviously available. With this information, all religious theology and dogma as well as philosophy and science have been placed on the backburner. Judge for yourself.
……Love is the answer. Any questions?
…..In the spirit world, everyone lives in the kind of a heaven or hell that they have prepared for themselves while on Earth
……It is God’s love for us that sends us on our journey and it is our love for God that allows us to return to God’s loving arms again.
…..To appreciate heaven well it is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.” (Been there, done that).
…..Religious dogma means nothing on the other side. True religion is to love others as ourselves. It is what’s inside that count. Love, not religious dogma, it creates spiritual growth. What is important is what comes from the heart, not what one professes with their lips. Love in action is what lasts. The more we live in love, the closer we are to God. The way to heaven is through the practice of love. Love is the law of the universe and holds the universe together. The Golden Rule is the governing principle in the spirit world.
…..Birth is choosing to fall sleep and crossing through a veil to a lower consciousness that causes us to forget the knowledge of where we came from and who we really are. This knowledge can be remembered only at a much higher level of consciousness. But trying to remember this knowledge is like trying to remember a dream during your deepest period of REM sleep.
…..In the spirit world, all the knowledge that exists is already known to us. After death, we awaken, regain our forgotten knowledge and once again become our true selves.
…..Humans have become so encapsulated in the physical that we began to identify ourselves more with our bodies than with our consciousness. We began to think of ourselves as physical entities rather than free, living consciousness. We began to think we were only physical beings and our heavenly origins began to be forgotten. The physical body is so substantial, so captivating that it is difficult to hold on to the more delicate reality of spirit-thoughts, pure point of consciousness in a Universal Mind.
……The truth is this: our true self is spirit and our spirit is one with God.
…..All is known. All knowledge is within us in our consciousness. We have simply forgotten it on an intellectual level. I didn’t feel like I knew anything; yet, there was a place in my higher consciousness that knew everything.
…..Man will prey on man until man will pray for man.
…..Evil Does Not Exist – Only Stupidity
…..There is no evil in any human soul. It is the lack of love that distorts people. We are designed by God to self-correct, just like the rest of the universe. No one is lost.
…..The more we exercise our individual consciousness and free will for self-interest, self-gratification, self-centeredness, and self-consciousness, the more we heightened our sense of self apart from the Whole. This separation of self from the Whole is what people call “sin”.
…..The greatest enemy we can face is ourselves.
…..Negative thought vibrations is out of ignorance. High vibrations indicate love and spiritual development, while low vibrations indicate debasement and evil.”
…..Evil and the devil do not exist. What people consider evil is really ignorance. Hitler was not an evil man. He was just so incredibly ignorant that he was practically retarded at a spiritual level. Such people are to be pitied and our unconditional love should extended even to him because it is hard to hate a retarded person. (Sorry about that Asger)
…..Satan Does Not Exist – Only Ego.
…..Cecil is an 11 year-old child who asked the Being of Light the following, during his Near Dead Experience:
I asked if there was a Devil or Satan.
He said to me, “Would God allow that?”
He continued, “If I made you God for just a few seconds, what would you do first?”
I knew my first act would be to eliminate any Devil or Satan.
I asked, “How do I know right from wrong?”
He replied, “Right is helping and being kind. Wrong is not only hurting someone but not helping when you can.” (Cecil).
…..What all people seek, what sustains them, is love. What distorts people is a lack of love. The revelations coming from the light seemed to go on and on, and then I asked the light, “Does this mean that humankind will be saved?” Then, like a trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great Light spoke, saying, “Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and heal yourself. You always have. You always will. You were created with the power to do so from before the beginning of the world. In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were designed to self-correct like the rest of God’s universe.
….. We (Individual Souls) came to this physical realm to live the human experience and help each other rise to the higher level of love.
….. Each one of us came to Earth on a personal mission to be loved or to give love. We are to learn the value and price of love. Other parts of our mission include learning patience, humility, self-discipline, and other virtues. These attributes are parts of love.
….. Our own desire to grow and learn leads us to be born in the physical realm.
….. The ideal place to grow spiritually is on Earth because of the influence of a physical body. The opportunity for the full range of love (child’s love, marital love, and parental love) is ideally available while one is on Earth. Love which has been misused or misdirected is also best corrected in the physical. On Earth, there is the full range of physical and spiritual senses with which to act and communicate.
….. One of our goals in this world is true self-realization – knowing that we are a soul, a part of God, yet also the Whole.
….. Our desire for soul growth in this world arises from a desire to be close to God. In the spirit world, there is an ever-increasing unity with the love of God. This is also our goal for soul growth in the physical world.
….. We made a promise to God to accept the opportunities, challenges and responsibilities of a physical life, to make the most of this opportunity for ourselves and God, to return to God with the knowledge and experience gained such that likewise, God could be enhanced by the experience. By doing good, improving our minds, and learning to cope with physical reality, our love for God will bring us back to Him.
….. Souls choose to be born with physical disabilities for the purpose of soul growth and to stay compassionate. There are many rewards for choosing to be born with a disability. Souls who choose to be born mentally retarded are special souls who have retained more than a normal amount of their pre-birth memories and who know much more than they are able to express. Such hardships are necessary for soul growth.
…..The angel (I don’t know what else to call her) said that life is an endless cycle of improvements and that humans are not perfect yet. She said that most people have this secret revealed to them when they die, but that handicapped children often know this and endure their problems without complaining because they know that their burdens will pass. Some of these children, she said, have even been given the challenge of teaching the rest of us how to love. It stretches our own humanity to love a child who is less than perfect,’ said the angel. And that is an important lesson for us.
…..We choose the life we are going to live and how much karma we are going to meet and settle.
…..We are born to face trials and gain the experience of a physical life.
…..Destructive Earth changes are a reflection of all the social upheaval and violence happening all over the world at the moment.
…..God made a promise not to intervene in our lives, unless asked.
…..We progress at our own rate to reach the light. If we do things that take us away from the light, then we are perpetuating our time here.
…..Any habit-forming pleasure, and they are endless, traps us into the cycle of rebirth over and over, until our appetites are finally put aside while we are in the flesh.
…..Every act of destruction of God’s environment on Earth multiplies into destructive forces of nature – earthquakes, floods, pestilence, nuclear destruction and waste.
…..When planning our life before birth, we do not deal with the details. Instead, we have before us our relationships to others and to situations. But some people have squandered their opportunities to such a degree that they are not completely free in their choices.
…..We mustn’t wait to find our heaven in the clouds. We must find it here because it exists here and will be whatever we make it and whatever we are willing to accept of it.
…..We have chosen to forget most of our knowledge in order to come to Earth and have human experiences.
…..The drama of creation is unbounded and is neither limited by our perception of it, nor by our ability or inability to comprehend it. This drama is as stupendous as it is terrifying, as awesome as it is wonderful, as miraculous as it is mysterious, as beautiful as it is the ultimate act of all-consuming love. To witness even a glimpse of such glory, to know the Real Truth of it, leaves a mark so deep and so profound you are forever uplifted and transformed.
….. As a soul, we come to this world to have a life experience as a human being. Everyone has been doing this for millions of years. We are bringing God into this garden called Earth. We are bringing light into darkness and peace into chaos. We come to help our loved ones within our soul group and humanity in general evolve and learn lessons that only a human experience can give.
….. Living in this world is similar to experiencing on-the-job training. We come here to attain growth as a soul (an individualized aspect of spirit). As a spirit, we are already perfectly one with God. But with every human body and life we experienced on Earth over the millennia, we create a different soul body to be the vehicle for our spirit as it experiences the world in the vehicle of a human body. At the physical level, our body is conscious. At the soul level, our mind is subconscious. At the spirit level, we are Universal Conscious. We are multi-dimensional and exist in three different worlds at the same time. There are many abodes and many dimensions. We are working our way back up Jacobs ladder of success toward the goal of perfected individuality as a soul to go along with our already perfect Wholeness as a spirit. We are evolving into an individualized version of the Whole which is “God” Consciousness.
….. As a human being, we seem like such a small creation in an infinite universe, but this is really only an illusion. As individuals, we are the human and soul part of God. We are extensions of thought in the Mind of God (the collective Whole). We are bringing this higher universal consciousness into this tiny world called Earth while at the same time we are developing individual consciousness. We are the Mind of God becoming human. We are the body, mind and spirit of God evolving into a perfect individual-divine unity. We have examples of this human-divine unity in the lives of Enoch, Melchizedek, Abraham, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad and many others. The goal in human evolution is for us to attain a human-divine consciousness which can overcome the limitations of the body, walk on water if we choose, or even live forever on this planet as a human if we choose to. We are powerful spiritual beings with a oneness of the Whole and the wholeness of the One. On a higher level, we are Gods. This is just another way of saying we are “godlings” or “children”. We are growing up to be like our Parent. The core of our being, our spirit, is perfect love and perfect “God consciousness.”
…..Creation is God exploring God’s Self through every way imaginable, in an on-going, infinite exploration through every one of us. Through every piece of hair on your head, through every leaf on every tree, through every atom, God is exploring God’s Self.
…..The general rule of thumb is this: hellish life, hellish afterlife – heavenly life, heavenly afterlife. Death will not change a hellish life into a heavenly afterlife, nor does it change a heavenly life into a hellish afterlife.
…..We do not go to heaven. We grow to heaven here on Earth.
…..The spiritual state of being we have on Earth is the spiritual state we take with us to heaven. There is no sudden metamorphosis from an idle person into an active person, from a nonreligious person into a religious person, from a money-centered person into a God-centered person.
…..People don’t go to heaven because of their good deeds, or because they believe this or that, but because they fit in and belong. It’s what your love are that counts.
…..Doctrine, creed and race mean nothing in heaven. No matter what we believed we were all God’s children. The only rule is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
…..Heaven is about deeds, not creeds. Therefore, persons of many cultures and religions form the colourful societies of heaven.
…..I asked the light, how people from other religions get to heaven. I was shown that the group, or organization, that people profess alliance to is inconsequential. What is important is how we show our love for God by the way we treat each other.
I am Rex D’artagnen
Oneness of the Whole and the wholeness of the One
Hey 🙂
Thanks for the comments, I have just returned from the Andes Mountains, having quite a tour in the heights. Give me a little time to ponder, I will return with more arguments 🙂
Thanks Jens and Rex, first of all, as usually I am pretty baffled by the wisdom of Rex, in a way it is a little “in points”, but the insight is amazing, thank you for sharing this here.
As for the argument, Jens is quite right; it all comes down to the discussion of what intelligence is. Intelligence is an Anaxagorean concept, so we have to to understand Anaxagoras to understand what the original concept of intelligence or “Nous”, was all about.
Here is a link to the discussion presented in Wikipedia, it is pretty precise and correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous
Looking at the idea of intelligence, to my mind, it is pretty obvious what made the discussion difficult to take after fall of the Roman empire. Simply the sources dried out.
When the Roman empire still worked traditions such as epicuranism, platonism, anaxagorism, aristotalism were living in the daily world of the empire. This meant that the books were available. They had some pretty amazing libraries then.
In the dark ages most of the knowledge that was easily attainable in the classiscal times were almsost all lost. In christianity this problem was pretty big, in the 12´th century there was a aristotelian rennaesance in France, with prominent philosophers as Thomas Aquinas, and the dane Doethius de Dacia.
The problem was, that they only analyzed and discussed the books of Aristotle and Plato, not Anaxagoras, who was the man who actually defined metaphysics, physics. Some philosophers say that all the knowledge we have today are just comments on Plato, that is wrong, it would be more accurate to define our time and knowledge as comments to Anaxagoras, because he came up with most of the physical ideas that Plato commented on.
So, to continue the discussion on G-d or intelligence, we have to acknowledge the basic idea, and the way Anaxagoras believed the idea worked with our physical world. We need to study Anaxagoras.
If we do that, we realize that Anaxagoras had a pretty humble explanation of G-d. In Anaxagoras view Nous cannot create the physical world, it cannot destruct the physical world, it can only make the physical world do things within the limits of the mechanical attributes of the mechanical world.
Aristotle talks about the immovable mover, and that is really what the Nous is; it moves the physical world, but i does not move itself, because it has no physical attributes.
Anaxagoras was first and foremost an amazing natural physicist. He tried to analyze the physical world to understand how it really worked. Actually his conclusions were so far reaching that he almost got killed. The most provocative thought of his day was the conclusion of Anaxagoras that the sun is a physical object, a stone. That really pissed the hellenes of, G-d was in their view a G-d.
So the idea of G-d in the Anaxagorean sense has nothing to do with simple faith, it is the conclusion of a long and explicit theoretical work on how the physical entities fit together.
Well, back to the prove. Jens asks what intelligence is. Intelligence i the ability to learn, and based on knowledge create.
It is a kind of layering of information that gives the person or creature the ability to choose between different options.
Intelligence is in all living things. The most clear difference in the realm of nature is between plants and animals. Plants do not have senses, animals have senses. Having senses multiply the options of choice enourmously, that is why animals seem so much more intelligent than plants.
But the ability to understand the environment, and act accordingly is in plants. Plants somehow know when the weather changes, when it is winter or summer. So it is intelligent, but on a very limited scale.
Now, if intelligence was something that was inherent in the living creature, it would change over time. That is what everything else in nature does. But if you look at nature from the outside, you can see, that intelligence never changes, it is always the ability to learn and act based on the learning.
I mean, if intelligence could evolve in its abilities, it could add new attributes to its working, it could do new things, it does not, it simply adds more power to the processor with each new generation of species.
You could compare this to artifical intelligence. In artificail intelligence it is the same, basically. The ability to learn and based on the learing make new decitions. Artificial intelligence has not changed in is basic core, but simply evolved in taerms of computing power.
To add the argument, you could look at life itself, or what happens when life dissapears.
When something die, what happens is that it intelligence disappears. A human being still grow their beard a few days after death, so in a sense the body is still alive, but intelince is gone, and consequently the person is dead. So life is intelligence.
Another arguement is the question of the seat of intelligence. There is no obvious container for intelligence in plants and many animals. Take spiders, they make amazing complex actions and have no real brain. Take bees, they communicate, they cooperate, the build things, but there is no real seat for the intelligence in them.
Intelligence is natural power as magnetism or light that is induced to a lump of materie at birth, and isolated from the rest of the natural power in that lump of materie as long as the creature is living.
How does it work? I do not know, it is simply the most probable conclusion on the discussion of the subject, that this unseen natural power is everywhere around us, and induced into us at birth.
As light, magnetism and centrifugal power, we cannot exactly explain how it works, but we can conclude that it works, has specific traits, and understand it into detail if we really study it.
Take light. We now know that there is light we cannot see, and light that penetrates materie on a very low frequency, we know this because we have studied it. It is the same with intelligence; we know it is there, Anaxagoras did some pretty amazing groundwork in his time (as he did with atomic physicism), and we need to catch up with him, if we really want to step out of the dark ages. G-d never died, we simply lost track of the discussion, because we lost the works of the man who realized the way intelligence works.
G-d lives very well, we just do not understand.
And to answer the question of Jens concerning rape. That is really simple. Law is defined with a body of people. Law is not the rules on paper, but the adherence of law in each man in the body a given polis or nation.
With the European Union the bodies of the nations were dismantled, and nothing was put in stead. Yes the lawgivers of the european parliment and the bureaucrats make laws, but these laws hold no serious legitimacy, and are consequently not implemented in all of Europe.
As a consequence the criminal records of the europeans have risen, among the crimes rape is one of the crimes that has risen, but theft and violence is also rising.
A simple example is the fact that eastern europeans go to Scandinavia to steal. This is possible because the physical borders are not there anymore between eastern Europe and scandinavia, and the psychological borders (laws) are not yet implemented in the minds of the eastern europeans, so they steal.
The european union has, due to lack of serious planning changed Europe into a chaotic territory with a steep rise in crime.