Is killing a god a crime?  If it is, I hope habeas corpus rights demand that the body be presented before I am convicted.

As an atheist I could be accused of killing God.  But that’s impossible.  For there is not one god, but millions, perhaps billions.  There is one god, or more, in every mind of a believer.  I could only kill the single god in my own mind.  The human imagination, not heaven, is the abode of gods.

To those that insist there is but one god, please provide a specific address.  I’ll MapQuest it and go knocking on that god’s door.  I welcome any real evidence of deities.

As for “my” god, I didn’t really kill him.  I merely pulled the plug on the artificial life-support.  Without it he died, as all gods do, a natural death.

If it were a killing–which it wasn’t–you could call it a mercy killing.  All gods have a terminal illness.  As human knowledge progresses, the abilities-of and need-for gods atrophies.  No, they don’t bring rain, nor cause volcanoes to erupt.  They aren’t responsible for disease or the remission of disease.  What is left for gods to do?  Blow on the silver ball at the roulette table to answer one gambler’s prayer and deny another’s?  It is only a matter of time, whether decades, centuries, or millennia, before all gods will be useless.  They’ll be brain-dead relics of a primitive era in human physical and cultural evolution.  Why not say bye-bye sooner rather than later?  I think it’s the humane thing to do.

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