GodsReward has 2 objectives: [1] to search for God and
[2] to defend the individual right to belief.
[1] Millions of people worldwide are searching for God in their lives.
I began searching at five years of age by praying to learn whether God answers prayers.
At the age of thirteen I read the entire Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
Since then I have read documents of other religions.
I have attended services of different religions and spoken with believers of various faiths.
In 1996 I began offering a reward for proof God exists.
GodsReward expands the offer to reach more people to pursue the first goal to search for God.
The first part below explains the requirements for the proof God exists.
[2] The second objective is to defend the individual right to believe as one chooses.
In various nations religion is forced upon individuals by inclusion of religious dogma in politics and the law of the land.
This occurs in the U.S.A. in violation of the Freedom of Religion guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
As an American patriot, I pledge allegiance to the concepts of the Constitution.
Proof God exists is needed to defend the individual right to belief against coercion from the majority in politics and the law of the land.
The second part below explains reasons why proof God exists is needed.
The Webster dictionary defines God as "the Supreme Being and self-existent creator of the universe."
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The above requirements pertain to many different religions' definition of God.
Jehovah of the Christian, Brahma of the Hindu, Yahweh of the Jew, the Earth Mother Goddess
of the animist, Allah of the Muslim, and numerous other Gods are all claimed to have created the world. Each religion claims that every requirement listed is fulfilled by that religion's God.
Note, for example, that the requirements do not demand proof of creation in 6 days.
The requirements purposefully allow the possibility that most of the Gods of creation that have ever been worshipped could be accepted in the proof.
Even previously worshipped Gods, such as the Sun God of many past religions, meet all of the requirements according to those religions.
These requirements fit the specifications for the supreme God.
However, certain Gods will not be considered.
For example, the elephant-headed Ganesh, Hindu God of wisdom and fortune,
is not claimed to be creator of the world and does not meet the requirements.
Manmade products of any sort will not be considered.
Manmade products prove man can make the products.
Manmade products prove the existence of God only if God is a manmade product.
God as a work of manmade fiction is well known in books, movies, etc., but fiction will not be considered.
Manmade products include (but are not limited to):
words, whether spoken, written, sung, or electronically generated
art, whether painted, sculpted, or crafted by any manmade process
fabric or other materials manufactured by manmade processes
architecture
scientific devices
humans themselves
human actions
etc.
Forces and products of nature will not be considered as proof of God's existence.
For example, to call a hurricane an "act of God" presupposes the existence of God.
Hurricanes have been proven in meteorology to be caused by environmental forces such as the
spinning of the Earth and differential heating of ocean masses versus the atmosphere.
Any naturally occurring form of matter or energy will not be considered to prove God exists.
In summary, God must be proven to be the self-existent, sentient, intelligent creator of the
universe. If the elements and energy of the universe are interacting continuously through time
to create and recreate the universe, then the universe has no need of God. As in mathematics,
the proof must be shown to be necessary and sufficient. The proof must be scientifically derived from empirical evidence.
I have been offering a reward for proof God exists since 1996.
In all those years I have spoken with many who offered their point of view.
Here are some of them:
The most common "proof" is "of course there's a God!" This is sometimes accompanied by
"because the Bible says so." As explained above, spoken or written words are manmade products that will not be considered as proof.
The one "proof" I've heard from Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims is that the fact I'm alive proves there's a God. As with every other human, biology has proven I'm alive due to parental coitus. Neither of my parents is God. Therefore the only logical way that the singular fact I exist proves God exists is if I am God.
The most honest response has been to admit that the believer can't prove God exists but that
belief depends on faith. Faith is defined as "belief not based on proof or evidence."
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Those who claim to believe because they have faith are illogically admitting to believe because they have no proof.
Faith is thus the antithesis of proof and is rejected.
Intelligent, thoughtful Christians and Jews have told me they'd return with the proof.
They never did.
The most appreciated response came from people who admitted that they're still searching for
God themselves.
Each individual has the right to personal beliefs.
This is a fundamental human right of utmost importance that deserves respect.
Even concepts that have been proven by science to be false are within the
right of belief of the individual.
The individual bears no obligation to society to prove private beliefs.
Defense of this principle is the inspiration for GodsReward.
To the contrary, society owes proof of validity of public policy
that infringes upon individual rights.
Assertion of God in public policy violates the right of individuals to believe
there is no God, or of individuals who believe in other Gods.
When unfounded beliefs guide public policy, it violates individual rights.
For this reason proof of God is needed.
For millennia politicians have used the belief in God to manipulate the populace.
Leaders of ancient Egypt, the pharaohs declared themselves as gods.
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The pharaohs diverted major public resources to construct pyramids as tombs for personal use.
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This theft of public funds based on religious sham was political fraud.
Yet the religion continued for thousands of years.
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One might think mankind has evolved beyond such primitive beliefs as the worship of politicians.
However, even today the Rastafarians worship the last king of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, as a god. [ref]
Politicians worldwide still exploit the people through their belief in God.
Entire governments are based on theocracy, such as that of Iran.
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The belief in God is not wrong. It is the right of each individual to believe by personal choice.
It is wrong to manipulate people based on the belief in God, especially if the belief cannot be proven, or if it has been proven false.
Current political crises prove that exploitation of people based on the belief in God is a prime basis for prejudice, hatred, violence,
terrorism, war, and genocide worldwide.
The two geometric figures in the illustration above are equal in height, equal in width, and equal in that each is a simple construct of six line segments.
There should be no emotional response to either.
However, prejudice based on the belief in God causes some viewers to react vehemently.
The Star of David is a symbol of Judaism. The Swastika is the Hindu sign of good luck.
Both symbols have come to signify sinister politics based on fraud.
The two religions are equal in the failure to prove the existence of any God.
In the Middle East, Israeli politicians exploit the belief in God as a basis to claim there is a Promised Land, [ref]
where Jews perform God's work to murder Muslims, steal their land, and occupy Palestine.
This equals Adolf Hitler's claim that it is God's work to end all "Jewry." [ref]
In the name of Yahweh, Zionists slaughter Palestinians and scar the land with a wall like that of the former East Germany.
GodsReward challenges Jews to prove the existence of Yahweh.
Lacking that proof the Zionist nation is a baseless Jewish criminal cause and Israel has no moral basis to exist.
The Palestinians exploit the belief in Allah to induce Muslims to become suicide bombers.
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Osama Bin Laden, amongst other terrorists, has proven that the belief in God is a potent political basis for terrorism.
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GodsReward challenges Islam to prove the existence of Allah.
Lacking that proof the Mullahs of Islam lead a baseless Muslim criminal cause and theocratic nations like Iran lack any moral basis to exist.
U.S. politicians exploit the belief in God for political gain. One criminal example is Newt Gingrich, who is collecting money for a presidential run. On his website he endorses child abuse in the public schools to teach God in the classroom and force defenseless schoolchildren to pray to "one nation under God."[ref]
Gingrich further exploits the US Christian majority for support against Islamic fascists. In fact, Islamists are not fascists, they are theocrats like Gingrich. Gingrich with other Christian leaders is in league with the Islamists and the Zionists to lead us into World War III. Gingrich has publicly called for World War III. It is no surprise that Islamists have responded with acceptance for the challenge. None has the courage to accept GodsReward's challenge to prove the existence of their pathetic Gods. We cannot allow ourselves to be led by delusional politicians who wish to fulfill a fictitious supernatural creature's prophecy of apocalypse.
Gingrich claims Iran is a more serious threat to world stability than the US. In reality, the US has the greater nuclear arsenal and is the only terrorist state to murder over 100,000 civilians with atomic bombs. US politicians commit greater crimes with claims about God than Iranian politicians. After all, Iran is a proclaimed Islamic state whereas the US has laws against religion in politics. Our own politicians are the criminals violating the laws designed to protect us.
President Bush is the primary politician leading America deeper into the darkness of superstition. On June 27, 2002, Bush declared "judges who understand that our rights were
derived from God" ... "are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench."
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This policy is a ploy to gain power from support by the religious majority in America.
The policy is illegal for a number of reasons.
First, it is a violation of the freedom of religion guaranteed in the first amendment of the
U.S. Constitution.
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No judge or any citizen can legally be obligated to agree that "our rights were
derived from God" or even to believe that God exists.
Second, it violates the third clause of the sixth article of the U.S. Constitution, which states "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
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Clearly the requirement that an appointed judge must believe that "our rights were
derived from God" is a religious test for the office.
Third, the policy is a betrayal of the President's inaugural oath in which he swore on a Bible to his own God, and more importantly to the American people, to "preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States."
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Rather than protecting the constitution, Bush's policy is a criminal violation of the constitution.
Fourth, the policy is political fraud. The policy is proven false because American rights do not derive from God, American rights derive from the U.S. Constitution, where our rights are codified. The U.S. Constitution is the official document which is the basis of American rights in the law of the United States. Any American politician ought to know this. If Bush can not prove that God exists, then Bush can not prove that "our rights were derived from God." Bush's official policy for the appointment of judges thus has no proven basis in fact or in reality. A political policy enacted to gain power based on falsehood is political fraud.
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This policy is a high crime worthy of impeachment of the president. It is a high crime because it violates the US Constitution, the highest level of law in the land. It is a crime against the highest level of judiciary, Supreme Court judges. It is a crime against a high number of US citizens which will continue for many years, since the judges are appointed for life. This criminal legacy will linger long after the Bush regime is overthrown.
GodsReward challenges President Bush to prove God exists. This is an opportunity for the President to surpass the achievements of any political leader in the history of mankind. The President of the United States has unrivaled access to worldwide sources of information. If that office can not locate or develop credible proof of God's existence, Bush should apologize for lying to us, rescind his policies based on God, and refrain from future political statements that subjugate us to his prejudiced religious dogma.
To this end, it is recommended that an official governmental investigative committee be formed to establish proof of God's existence within Bush's term of office. If such an undertaking is deemed a violation of the separation of church and state, then Bush's policies based on God are proven illegal on that basis alone.
The US government is not a democracy, it is a hypocrisy. The first amendment of the US Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." In fact the government has created an establishment of religion which criminally enforces by law a variety of religious dogma, symbols, and rituals. This establishment is a cult of Christianity. Unlike the Church of England, the cult of the US federal government has not been officially named in an effort to hide its obvious existence. The federal official cult of the US (FOCUS) has created dogma which American citizens are coerced to accept:
"So help me God" is dogma peculiar to FOCUS which is forced upon citizens in religious rituals such as jury pools and oaths to public office. These rituals often include religious symbols like the Bible, which identifies FOCUS amongst the cults of Christianity. These oaths are fraudulent without proof that God exists. The use of such oaths in court constitute coercion of perjury.
"In God we trust" is criminal fraud forced upon American citizens via financial contracts represented as legal tender, rendering our dollar bills to be religious symbols. There is no logical basis to trust in a supernatural creature that can not be proven to exist. To base financial contract on superstitious delusion is criminal fraud.
"One nation under God" is included in a ritual oath to the American flag, transforming the pledge of allegiance into a prayer. Forcing this prayer upon defenseless schoolchildren is child abuse.
GodsReward calls for legal charges against the US government for commission of criminal fraud based on lies about God.
The media is prejudiced in the manner of the surrounding populace for manipulative purposes. Journalists pander to the religious majority for clients and ratings.They speak of God as if it is a known proven fact that there is a God. Without proof this is fraud.
Commentators such as Bill O'Reilly on Fox News cable channel are particularly guilty of pandering to the religious majority to heighten ratings. It is criminal fraud to make false claims for such personal financial gain. GodsReward has repeatedly challenged Fox News to prove the existence of God. The media lacks the courage to face this challenge.
My seventh grade biology teacher argued with me in class about God. She committed criminal fraud. She violated her contract to teach evolution, not God. She committed child abuse. She abused my education and that of the other students. It is impossible for the youthful learner to logically reconcile the claim that God created the species of the world in six days versus evolution over millions of years. She committed child molestation. She molested the minds of the children. She induced us to become victims of criminal fraud as a pattern for life. If I had complained to the school administration, I would have been the one punished, not the child abuser.
Such criminal child molestation continues today. It amounts to brainwashing when teachers perpetrate this fraud against defenseless captive schoolchildren across America.
Some Americans call for teaching the "theory of intelligent design" of life in all public schools.
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This theory requires "intelligence" to exist prior to and in the absence of life. There is no evidence that this is possible. By contrast science claims that evolution is the basis for formation of life. This theory requires that evolution exists as a natural process. Proof that evolution occurs has been shown in microbes such as drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis.
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Human embryos develop through stages of evolution, from single cells, to mutliple cells, through forms that include gills like fish.
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Institutionalized religious indoctrination is common in the public education of the US. Daily oaths of allegiance are made to the flag of "one nation under God." This is forced "prayer" defined as "a solemn oration to God."
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I was resentful of this coercion against myself as a defenseless child. To claim a student has the right to refuse this prayer is absurd. Anyone refusing to comply would be challenged by the administration and ostricized through peer pressure of the students. Instead I pledged allegiance to "one nation under Satan" or "one nation under the Soviet Union." Not that I believed in these absurdities, it was just a reaction of deep frustration against the hatred the US is currently instilling in the youth it is abusing.
Coercing students to swear an oath to "one nation under God" is not patriotic, it is criminal child abuse.
This violates the concepts of the Constitution, to which the true patriot pledges allegiance.
According to archaeological evidence, mankind has been inventing religions for thousands of years.
Over the millennia, millions of people in many different cultures around the world worshipped the sun as God.
For example, the Aztec priests sacrificed men's lives, ripping their hearts out on the alter of the Sun God.
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Science has proven beyond any logical doubt that the sun is not God, the sun is a star.
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Thus the Aztec priests and clergy of other cultures committed murder based on religious fraud.
Fraud and atrocity is central to the history of religion and the belief in God.
At the conception of Christianity, at the time and in the region where Jesus of Nazareth or Christ is claimed to have been born, there preceded his birth an official state religion, the Roman religion. That religion claimed that God impregnated a human female, who gave birth to a male offspring. The half-breed grew up to change water to wine, was killed, and then resurrected from the dead by God.
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The God was Jupiter and the son was Dionysus in the Roman religion, which copied the story from the Greek religion, in which the God was Zeus and the son was Bacchus. Today both the Greek and Roman religions are known to be mythologies. Since this central theme of Christianity is also a copy of these myths, Christianity is mythology.
During the Dark Ages Christian leadership in Europe undertook the Inquisition in which those who questioned the teachings of Christianity were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered.
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An example is the case of Galileo Galilei, a scientist who was imprisoned for life in 1633 because he stated that the earth moves around the sun, contrary to Christian belief.
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Since Galileo's time, science has proven that there is no God that created the world in six days. The previous Pope admitted publicly that science has evidence that the world was not created in six days.
Science has proven beyond any logical doubt that there is no God that created all the species of this planet concurrently.
Of course, these are critical, primary claims of the Bible. Thus science has proven that the Bible is fiction, and the Biblical God is fraud.
Yet even today atrocities are committed based on the belief in God. An example is the exploitation of children's belief in God by Catholic priests and other clergy to seduce those children into rape.
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Criminal investigation has led to the application of RICCO in court, since the Catholic church has responded to the charges with fraud and deception, tactics of organized crime.
Fraud is now officially recognized in this particular motivation of the clergy. However, fraud is the basis of all activities of the clergy.
Clergy, evangelists, politicians, or others who collect money or gain political power based on any religion's claims about God are committing criminal fraud. The most minimal claim that can be made about God is that God exists. Without proof of this most minimal claim, any other claim made about God is a fabricated lie without any basis in fact. Without proof, God is fraud.
Even true believers in God agree that many people worship false Gods. The Christian knows that Brahma of the Hindu is a false God. The Hindu knows that Jehovah of the Christian is a false God. Neither recognizes that both are correct. No matter which almighty God is chosen from over twenty major religions having at least half a million followers each, demographics prove that particular God is so pathetically weak that it has failed to prove its existence to the majority of people of the world. The question is not so much that man should prove the existence of God, but that God should prove the existence of God.
Whichever God you choose, we the majority of the people of the world agree that we don't believe in your God.
The belief in God is a primary foundation for prejudice, hatred, violence, terrorism, war, genocide, and other atrocities committed by mankind against mankind. Establishing proof of God's existence would unite the world in belief of God. Failing that, removal of false Gods from all political endeavors would save us from this primal cause of world strife.
GodsReward is dedicated to the evolution of mankind beyond the superstition of the Dark Ages.
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Since 1996 I have offered a reward in many venues for proof God exists. Once I approached a congregation of about twenty people gathered for a baptism. I announced the reward to all and I was directed to the preacher. His cowardly response was "we're not interested in your money." He obviously was happy to take chump change based on lies to his congregation, but lacked the courage to seek serious money for proving his service was not criminal fraud. Please consider it a personal challenge to you.
GodsReward Standard Challenge
If you claim God exists, you're a liar. I offer $100,000 for proof God exists. If you lack the courage to seek proof, you're a coward.
If you teach children that God exists, you're a child abuser. You abuse the education of children. You're a child molester. You molest the minds of children with fraud. You induce children to become victims of criminal fraud for life.
If you force children to pray to "one nation under God", you are a criminal violator of children, not a patriot.
If you take money based on claims about God, you are a thief committing criminal fraud.
If you build power based on claims about God, you are a fraudulent political criminal.
GodsReward has issued challenges to the following (amongst many others):
A portion of responses to challenges are posted here. A more complete listing opens in a separate window by clicking "more responses..."
Response: Allenposey9@aol.com wrote -
You want proof? Go take a good look in the nearest mirror. You can keep your money. I'm just happy to be of service.
Rebuttal:
This is a variation of the one "proof" I've heard from Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims. As stated above, the only logical way that the singular fact I exist proves God exists is if I am God. However, neither I nor my mirror meet the requirements for the proof.
Response: Mason Vann (JVann@atsu.edu) wrote -
If God doesn't exist then why do you hate Him so much?
Rebuttal:
I don't hate God. I seek God and have done so since I was 5 years old. I have found only repeated proof that God does not exist. I hate those who exploit others based on lies about God. I hate Muslims who recruit suicide bombers based on the claim that the false God Allah awaits martyrs with 72 virgins. I hate Jews who recruit soldiers to murder Muslims and occupy God's Promised Land in Palestine. I hate Christian clergy who sodomize children based on their belief in Jehovah. I hate Hindus who enslave the "untouchables" based on claims about Brahma. You should have the right to believe as you choose. You should not be allowed to force your superstitious belief in God on others.
Response: Travis White (nootherstandard@yahoo.com) wrote -
You say that man-made products will not be considered. (see more...) Are you saying that, for instance, a sound deductive argument will not be accepted because a human being wrote it, and it contains words? If these are indeed your conditions for proof, what in the world could possibly be offered as proof, not just for God, but for anything? For instance, how could I prove to you that Richard Nixon existed, on the above criteria?
Rebuttal:
No deductive argument could prove the existence of God. Over thousands of years brilliant philosophers deduced that the sun is God. Millions of gullible fools believed it, just as they believe in the Gods of over 20 major religions today. There's no possible way all those deduced Gods could coexist. Recall that Christian philosophers deduced that the Earth is flat and there are those that still believe that! Purportedly Nixon was a man, not a God, though believers have worshipped politicians. His remains could be exhumed and tested for DNA proof he existed. Even the deductions of Einstein require scientifically derived empirical data before they are accepted as fact. Scientific evidence is required for proof God exists.
Response: izzipozzibull@juno.com wrote -
betcha can't prove He DOESN'T exist !! (see more...) Psalms 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." WHY are you so "interested" in finding a "proof for the existence of God?"
Rebuttal:
Science has proven many times that God does not exist. By proving the sun is a star, science disproved the God of both the Aztecs of Mexico and the Pharaohs of Egypt, amongst others. By proving that the total of all species never coexisted, science disproved the Gods which have been claimed to create all of life concurrently, including the Christian God "Jehovah" and Muslim God "Allah." You refer to the Bible. By proving no God created the world in six days, science has proven the Bible is fiction and the Biblical God is fraud. Clearly you have been fooled, probably by brainwashing since childhood, like most believers. As stated above, GodsReward is dedicated to [1] seek the proof or disproof that God exists (as part of a lifetime of search) [2] defend the right of belief including disbelief [3] charge the US government with criminal fraud and child abuse in the public school system based on false claims about God [4] end the superstition of the Dark Ages.
Response: Devotee of Francis Turretin (turretin@hotmail.com) wrote -
There are two tables of stone on which God wrote the ten commandments. These were, for many years, housed in the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of Covenant was removed from Israel at the latest by the time of the exile. There is a box currently resting in a chapel in Ethopia that the Ethopian church asserts is the true Ark of the Covenant. If their claim is correct, and if the contents of the Ark have not been removed, then the Ark should contain the two tables of stone even now (see more...).
Rebuttal:
If the tablets exist they prove nothing. Moses could have chiseled the commandments in stone using the technology of his time. If God wanted to impress mankind with the ten commandments he should have delivered them on an indestructible, eternally operating laptop with infinite memory. Or is that beyond the ability of the supreme supernatural being that created the universe?
I am an American born and raised. I never asked for either. As a result, the majority of people I have known and loved are Christians. To those who respect others' right of belief, I apologize if my cause offends you. If only there were no criminals which exploit people based on the belief in God, this cause would be unneeded.
