Baraka_Guru

My thoughts are that this seems more a rant against religious dogma than against concepts of God and the fundamental teachings related to these. But if you want to know what I think...

Whether you can prove the status of God's existence doesn't even matter.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, you have concrete evidence that God exists. Even if the inverse were true (that you have concrete evidence that God doesn't exist), having this knowledge will not change your life as it will only reveal an already existing truth. To think that you even need to prove or disprove God's existence is an exercise in egotism because it suggests that you must have this knowledge in order to make your life meaningful. Did it occur to you that regardless of your having this knowledge, the truth will remain the same and your life will be no different?

If you live a miserable existence, proving whether God exists will only mean that you're living in misery even in spite of knowing what some would call the "ultimate truth." We all need to awaken to something far less corporeal than having specific evidence of what is ultimately a conceptual being.

...that we're the cause of our own suffering would be a good start.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot