Is it God.... Or just pure Luck?

These days there are talks everywhere in the media about Higgs Boson also termed as the "God Particle". Although scientist says there is no correlation between the particle and God, it’s considered one, since the particle is the missing link on start of any matter. I have always pondered on the existence of God and if all it was just pure luck! Well, I don’t want to kick the hornets’ nest of believers and nonbelievers of God but just open a discussion on it.

Taking Hindu Mythology, we have 100’s of Gods; people worship a variety of gods – in fact we have god for specific items of luxury or wellbeing and there are many mythological stories on each of them as to why they tend towards each of these making us believe in them. In Andhra Pradesh (home to highest number of people in USA) there is a “US Visa Deity” – makes us wonder how far worshiping god can go. People might laugh at this, but believe it or not, there are huge numbers of devotees who throng these places just to get through to USA.

Well my Dad & Father-In-Law are nonbelievers of God. They say it’s just the luck factor that we are trying to find through whatever sources we have (and for believers, the source is God). Makes a lot of sense to me because if we get what we aimed for, believers say “Thank God” while nonbelievers say “Damn, must be my lucky day”. Taking it a step further we have started attributing our success or failures to be “Act of God” or the luck factor. Someone have rightly said “if you are hard pressed in achieving a goal you will achieve it” (maybe the strong inner feeling - the soul is the driving factor for it).

My doubts about God’s existence peek, when I read about kids and women suffering due to war and natural calamities., The two extremes of haves and have-nots can be seen every day in the big city that I live in. So, if there is a God, why this imbalance? Godmen or gurus say the less fortunate are paying for their previous lives’ sins. Really? Or is it being born with a lucky spree? Cannot help thinking that if we stop believing in God or stop going to a religious place, would God be angry and punish us for not acknowledging him? How is he then different from a human being? Will questioning the existence cause the wrath of almighty? Too many questions, too little answers - well isn’t that what life is all about :-).

P.S It makes me wonder what Thomas Edison might have said when he found the Electric Bulb, because Bible quotes God saying “Let there be light” when he made sun.