If God existed before everything else, then who or what created God? Since nothing else existed, the definitive answer is that nothing could have created God, and its existence is not only ineffable, but logically unsound. Something cannot come from nothing. The universe itself also suffers from this problem. People who posit the existence of God and/or the universe are implying that the very principles of logic are so broken that literally anything follows from an argument. I could say that because some flower pots are red, Australia is made of bricks and it would be just as logical as saying that God or a universe arose from nothing.

And there’s no need to bring higher dimensions into it. Any other dimensions would still be things, and still need explanations like anything else. The entire conundrum is quite simple: If God/the universe actually exists, then logic is at best a passing and local phenomenon, and our existence depends upon the capricious whim of chaos beyond our control or understanding. If however nothing exists, then everything we see, everything we appear to be, is actually an illusion. Yet only in this explanation is logic preserved.

Because of this, I say that God is nothing. It is emptiness, it is Truth beyond logic, it is peace beyond illusion. It was never created, it cannot be destroyed. It is omnipresent, yet always hidden behind illusion. Yet only with illusion can things appear to happen, and this illusion is the source of all misunderstanding and evil.

Now if only the religions of this little world would just get along.