What is the relationship between the concept of God and human destructiveness throughout history?

Question: The second question: OUR BELOVED MASTER, IT APPEARS THAT, THROUGH HISTORY, AS MAN HAS MOVED INTO THE CONCEPT OF "GOD," HE HAS SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOME MORE DESTRUCTIVE -- NOT JUST TOWARDS THE "NON-BELIEVERS" BUT TOWARDS HIS ENVIRONMENT, TOWARDS HIMSELF. IS THERE A CONNECTION? Yes, Maneesha, there is a connection -- but it is not very obvious. The connection is a very hidden undercurrent. When you start believing in a God which does not exist, you are also simultaneously believing that nothing evil can happen to you. You can do whatever you want; God is the savior and he is very compassionate. You can be destructive, you can be violent -- and all religions have been violent. In religious crusades millions of people have been killed in the name of God, because the believer always thinks he is killing in the name of God.

Beloved Osho, some young people in germany often use this motto: "god does not exist, but still I hate him."

The experience of hate is not very far away from love. It is love standing on its head. The people who say, "God is dead but still I hate him," do not understand what they are saying, and where they are going. In the first place, God has never been, so he cannot be dead. In the second place, if you have not loved God, you cannot hate him. In your hate, love still survives, it can reassert itself. Love reasserts out of hate that God will become alive again. It is your mind again. God is your projection. Whether you love him or hate him, whether you believe in him or disbelieve in him does not matter -- he will dominate your life. Through love he will dominate your life; through hate, perhaps more. Just be free of the projections. When you are free of the projection, the fiction,…

Beloved Osho, why is the world so sick today? Why are misery and tension increasing?

It is the outcome of all the idiotic ideas that have dominated humanity in the past. It was bound to happen. All the religions are responsible for it. What they have done, whether knowingly or unknowingly, is the cause of the misery, suffering and anguish of the whole of humanity. Let us think of the most fundamental causes one by one. The first: All the religions have been imposing the idea that God has created the world and God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. He knows all, he is all-powerful, he is everywhere. This idea prevented man from doing anything to life to make it better, beautiful. When somebody all-knowing, all-powerful, everywhere present, is looking after the world, then what can you do? How far can you see? What can be your contribution? If God is the creator of the world, you cannot improve upon it. If you do anything you…

Question: OSHO, DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST? If there is a God who has created the world, then nobody is responsible except Him. And to whom can He be responsible? -- there is nobody above Him. You are not responsible because He has created you. He is not responsible because there is nobody else to whom He can be responsible. God means the world loses all responsibility, and responsibility is the very center of your life. Then you can play the role, but you are not there, only promptings; whether given from the outside, from behind the curtain, or whether given from the inside through the hormones, through biology, physiology, psychology doesn't matter. You are only a collection of promptings, and you are just following them. It takes all dignity from man totally. It reduces you to a puppet.

Osho, alan watts once described the universe by saying, "it is as if god is playing a game." if there is no god, who is playing and what is the game?

The Master said, "That is the first requirement, that time is not binding. I cannot say how much time it will take -- one year, two years, ten years, fifty years -- nothing can be said about it. It all depends on you, on how quick you learn. I will try my best because I am old, I am also in a hurry. I was not going to accept another disciple, but if the king sends you -- he is my old friend, we both were under the same Master learning meditation -- I cannot refuse you. Your training starts from now." The prince asked, "What do I have to do?" The old Master said, "You have not to do anything except just ordinary things: cleaning, cooking, drawing the water from the well, cutting wood. But remember one thing, I can hit you any time from behind, so remain alert.…