God is No Delusion

The first two paragraphs of the Introduction would be suitable for this. It is 2015. I am 91 years old , and I have now finished the first part of the task that was given to me back in 1975, forty years ago. I must now finish the second part and then I will be able to rest with a clear conscience. I was told I would be a prophet and a priest but I found that hard to believe. Why me? I was told my work would be to write, but few people yet seem to want to read what I have written. I was given a task to do, and that was to pass on a message for all Christians. I was told to go to the Priests, but if they would not listen, I was to go to the people. Well, I have been to priests as individuals and I have told the message to the hierarchy of the Anglican Church in the response they asked for to their proposed Covenant (2007) I have had no acknowledgement that they have heard what I have had to say. Now I have gone to the Roman Catholic Church as well. They have kindly communicated with me, even though they may disagree with some of what I have to say. Finally I am offering my experience and beliefs to you – the well-educated young (and older) of today, who cannot accept all the traditional teachings of the Christian Church – or of the other religions into which you have been born, but who can accept there can be spiritual experience, and who are examining all types of religions and faiths, looking for something in which they can believe and use for guidance. It would be much easier for me to put all my experiences behind me and say, “I must have been imagining it. It did not happen,” but the files are there, the diaries are there, the scraps of paper with writing on are there in my files – and the resource books, the results of my work, are there on my website and free to all over the internet. When I said, “I’ll wait for you,” I thought maybe my task would be finished in ten years – later it was twenty years and now it looks as though it will be forty years and I am getting tired. I am still being told to be patient, but realistically I cannot expect to have many more years with my mind and body still active. My sight is deteriorating and modern technology is a worry for me. How simple it was to write something down on a sheet of paper, put it in an envelope and post it. Now I find it difficult to do the things my grandchildren take in their stride. Word-processing, e-mails and attachments have all become part of my life, and I must admit in some ways they are an advantage, especially when it comes to altering or adding bits to a piece of writing. There is a disadvantage there as well, because it would be so easy for someone else to add, change or delete a word or sentence, and if it was not in my writing or if there was not a gap in the written text, how could anyone be sure that it was not authentic? At least my diaries are authentic – in my own writing and if anything is crossed out or changed, I have usually initialled it. There are two books since 1975 and I have started on a third. Do I really need to go into these details and issue this warning? Yes, because I know that I, and all mankind, am fighting against an active force of evil that aims to help us destroy ourselves. It can deceive the eye and confuse the memory. It delights in hatred and encourages conflict between people of all kinds. It even pretends to be God.