When a person takes an overall view of the history of humanity during the last 100,000 years, it becomes evident that the immense majority of people that have dwelled on this planet have had a life of suffering.

By the year 1900 the most developed countries in the world had a life expectancy of just forty years and by the year 1700 it was of only twenty. As for the other nations, they were obviously doing much worse. Today, living to eighty is the norm but during 99% of human history that was not the case.

During the past millennia there were so many diseases, epidemics, wars and famine, that life was more fleeting than a Scandinavian summer. Since humanity lacked science and technology, even overcoming adolescence was an achievement reserved to a lucky few.

Such a historical fact leads inevitably to the question: what sort of God is the one that leaves its people for 100,000 years in terrible suffering? There is just one possible answer and it is that only an inept and incompetent God would manage to get something so wrong for so long.

Disease has been the number one killer of people through time and in past epochs epidemics were a constant, usually sweeping to their graves a third or more of the population. The epidemic that has most caught the attention of historians is the Black Plague. The Bubonic Plague, as it was also called, had a long history of killing people by the droves, but it was only until the fourteenth century that it first became a worldwide pandemic.

It started in China and then it spread to Central Asia. In no time, it moved on to the Middle East, and from there it wandered into North Africa and Europe. From 1350 to 1400, it killed about half of the European population and in the other regions of the world it eliminated similar percentages of the populace.

Each one of those regions was populated by people with different religions and each and every one of those persons prayed and begged to their respective God to free them from the terrible malady. However, the divine assistance never came, just as it had not arrived in all the previous epidemics and in all the previous famines and in all the previous wars. Neither the God from East Asia, from Central Asia, from the Middle East or from Europe moved a finger. By then, the Christian God, the Muslim God, the Hindu God, and the Buddhist God had already been revealed to the people of this planet, but they proved as useless as the Gods that had preceded them.

History shows that God is never there when people need Him, so why should we bother with Him. The only other logical deduction that can be inferred from what history recounts is that God does not exist and has never existed. Therefore, the sooner society forgets about Him and stops wasting its time on Him, the sooner our core problems will get solved.

The Black Plague was caused by bacteria of the type Yersinia pestis, and it was the scientists who finally got rid of it just as they have gotten rid of so many other threats to human health. It is scientists the ones who solve our problems and not God. It is therefore them the ones we should venerate and not God.