What is faith without test? It is god which put those legs there to see who will remain true and won't be swayed by godless science.

God, I believe in you. I believe you want me to be the best I can be.
Which is why I am pretending you don't exist at all. This way I will have to take full responsibility for myself, my actions and those I care for.
I will not make any excuses or blame others for my mistakes.

I know deep down that this is what you want. Right God? God, you there? Seriously? You're not sure or you prefer humans to act like worshipping brainless sheep?
No answer? You like all that mysterious shit, don't you?

Not even god turning up and telling them to shut up would shut them up.

I know this for sure. If God did come down and wasn't exactly how they think he should be, then they'll just call him a fake. This is how much they have convinced themselves of who or what God is or should be.

Right on

They would call the actual real god a fake. Haha!

(March 26, 2016 at 7:01 am)ignoramus Wrote: I know this for sure. If God did come down and wasn't exactly how they think he should be, then they'll just call him a fake. This is how much they have convinced themselves of who or what God is or should be.

This is exactly why Atheists win Pascal's Wager.

Let's say someone appears out of nowhere and claims they are god.  They provide evidence for their miraculous powers.  Atheists would be skeptical of course, but they'd be open to this God being God.  Christians would outright deny him if he contradicted their god (which is basically just the bible)

God: I can prove I'm god!  THE BIBLE SAYS I'M GOD!  I INSPIRED THAT BOOK YOU KNOW!
Christians: OHH!  AHH!!
Atheists: Uh yeah... going to need more than that.

God: I can prove I'm god.  Boom.  World hunger gone.  People no longer have a need to eat at all.  Also as a favor, I removed that pesky appendix everyone has and assigned any purposes it had to another organ.  I also cured all diseases.  Now to answer all the questions... No all religions aren't true.  Judaism is barbaric, and I'm ashamed that the people I created stoned people for all sorts of things including homosexuality, and working on Sunday.  They dismissed Science, when evolution was the best explanation for how people came to be.  Adam and Eve is made up story like the rest.  No, I didn't come down here born as a virgin and sacrifice myself to myself to change my own rules. Don't be silly. And I certainly never wanted anyone to fly planes into buildings. And an elephant? Really? Don't get me started on L. Ron Hubbard. Everybody has been fooled.  I'd have come down earlier, but I'm not actually omniscient.  I walk away for a few million years, waiting for evolution to occur naturally, and then come back and see this?  Seriously.  Stop hating each other.  Oh and I'll give you Superman and The Doctor as real people.  That should keep things safe for a while.  Now I'm off to my Q:ZD tee time with Cthulhu. 
Atheists: Hmm... maybe he's just an alien messing with us, but the claims are at least worth looking into.
Christians: DEMON!  DEVIL!  THE REAL GOD IS NOTHING LIKE THIS FRAUD!

Nothing shuts them up.

Creationist: There must be a god because the universe can't have been created out of nothing.

Atheist: So how did God do it then?

Creationist: He created it out of nothing.

Atheist: You make me sad.

"If it's not of Jesus, it's of the devil."

 

(March 26, 2016 at 6:53 am)robvalue Wrote: Not even god turning up and telling them to shut up would shut them up.

What would be ironic is if god came down and said this

God: Evolution is real you morons

they would still deny even if god himself said it. And if god denied himself
being a perfect creator they would call him the devil.