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What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Reading through Mark Twain quotes(fanboy), I realized this one was similar to what I have thought many times over.
'The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.'
-- Mark Twain.
Can an apparently supreme, all knowing deity, truly be so lacking in self respect, or so vain that it needs constant worship?
I think not. I think that if their was a deity of such power to make us, it would prefer people who use the god given intelligence to progress, not spending our lives stroking it's ego.
Wouldn't space in heaven be better give to those who have advanced mankind instead of pointless religious do-nothings like ayatollahs, priests who offer nothing but a total waste of life and time. Surely he would prefer the likes of Einstein, Darwin etc, people who challenged the way we think.
After they died, wouldn't he prefer to say 'well done my pet, you were a great human' to them instead of bootlickers?
Something fishy about people who think a supremely intelligent deity would like to be surrounded by mindless drones. Wtf would they talk about?
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 3:40 pm
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I only said Jehovah.
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2011 at 3:45 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
but... but god loves us so much that if we aren't spending eternity licking his perverbial boots, then...
TORTURE FOREVER!
I'm still constantly bedazzled over the fact that a being singly intelligent enough, immortal, benevolent (supposedly), and so forth gives two shits about which humans are putting what into where, what foods they eat, or whether someone prays six times a day or whatever assinine territorial disputes we murder one another over.
You would think that these issues would be well beyond petty to a being like that.
Nope.
Eat bacon?
TORTURE FOREVER!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1tg46ScP8w
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 4:58 pm
God, like his followers, despise knowledge and wisdom. They love ignorance, the stupid are gullible and so easily lead. The wise are independent on thought, and cannot be controlled. No wonder so many great minds were burnt at the stakes.
Why would a god want a population of zombies? Why despise the wise? Because god is a puppet, controlled by the gullible, who have become slaves to their own imagination.
If there is a god out there, I really don't think he'd be any where near as stupid as theists make him out to be. Not this self loving, corrupt dictator. Why send people to hell for questioning his existence? Also the whole all knowing thing is just so contradictive.
Total bollocks the lot of it.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 6:12 pm
That's so weird, 5th. I was reading Mark Twain quotes earlier today too. I try to read his Wikiquote page fairly often, usually gives me something worth thinking about, or at least to chuckle at.
I honestly think God would like gay people to stop being so darn queer and for pigs to remain off the dinner table and on the sacrifice table where they belong.
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Aside from the logics and science why god does not exist, the philosophy of a wanting god basically disproves it's existence.
Why would a god want for anything? What could a god possibly need? What could possibly be gained. After absolute power and knowledge, what is left?
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 10:18 pm
You are all missing the very important fact that this "Jehovah" was crystallized by the 'down-trodden' and advertised to ill-educated and the poverty-stricken as a great equalizer. God doesn't want the elites - the elites had their own gods who extolled heroes and intellectuals. They wanted someone who would even the playing field by knocking down anyone smarter, stronger, richer, etc, in reward for their absolute faith...which might have been all they had to give.
It was a way to feel better about your own mediocrity, and still is. Years of listening to Christens explain away their lack in every other area except church attendance pretty much seals that opinion.
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RE: What would God really want?
October 18, 2011 at 11:29 pm
(October 18, 2011 at 6:31 pm)IATIA Wrote: Aside from the logics and science why god does not exist, the philosophy of a wanting god basically disproves it's existence.
Why would a god want for anything? What could a god possibly need? What could possibly be gained. After absolute power and knowledge, what is left?
LOVE!!!!
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: What would God really want?
October 19, 2011 at 1:54 am
Quote:LOVE!!!!
Ah, yes....."love!"
Numbers 21
Quote: 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
Such a "lover" that fucking god of yours.
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