Athiests.. How do you explain the beginning of time?

[Baasha]

How did your god get started?

An excellent question that can never be answered conventionally. It is also the pitfall of every Abrahamic religion (Judaism/Christianity/Islam) that presupposes an infinite, omniscient being yet blithely spouting free-will.

The only possible answer to this question is this: god was never started, neither was creation or everything in it. Whatever was, is, and will be was always; the illusion that creation as separate and distinct from a supreme being, a "God", arises from ignorance.

That which is started, or born, has to end, or die. That is why the supreme being, infinite in its manifestations is referred to as the ineffable, transcendent, yet immanent reality called Brahman; that is also referred to as "aja" or "unborn".

Advaita Vedanta, an important part of the Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa) school of philosophy within Hinduism, describes this phenomenon through the experiences of many sages and seers.

The desert religions are woefully inadequate in answering such questions. It is also puerile of the atheists, who are themselves ignorant of many of the Eastern traditions, to lump all "religion" into one pot and redact them to a set of constraints.

 

[Ninjahedge]

I think our got just lost a Dietal Bet and got our reality as his punishment.