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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 30, 2017 at 4:40 pm
As an atheist, I don't hate any gods, because I don't believe they exist. If one or some were proven to exist, I'd have a source to hate deeply and passionately. Of course I'd like to know, but I wouldn't be happy. Anyone who can defend being a god and not doing shit about abuse, hunger, torture, pain... is like people who still defend Trump. I don't get it.
So, none of the poll answers apply to me.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 30, 2017 at 5:28 pm
(August 30, 2017 at 9:41 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: A god who merited adoration, devotion, and worship would not want it.
And a god that wanted adoration, devotion and worship would not merit it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 30, 2017 at 9:50 pm
The last answer was the closest to my thinking, so I took it. I suppose if there was a cosmic Big Bro it would be nice, but as they say, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, so I would have trust issues. Just as I believe all conceivable heavens would eventually become their own hell, I believe that all omnipotent gods eventually become troublesome cosmic assholes.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 5:01 am
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(August 30, 2017 at 10:37 am)Whateverist Wrote: If I found out my dogs were gods I'd go right on adoring and worshipping them all the same.
If I were you Mark, I'd go and get tested for Lysdexia!
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 5:27 am
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I can only consider what the xtians call "God" to be vaporware. Even a little study of the religions of this world points out homo sap's penchant for making shit up and gobbling it down. Tired posting- I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.  Currently listening to the long version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Maybe it will help.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 5:49 am
(August 31, 2017 at 5:01 am)ignoramus Wrote: (August 30, 2017 at 10:37 am)Whateverist Wrote: If I found out my dogs were gods I'd go right on adoring and worshipping them all the same.
If I were you Mark, I'd go and get tested for Lysdexia!
Or daily sex.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 10:29 am
(August 31, 2017 at 5:49 am)Cyberman Wrote: (August 31, 2017 at 5:01 am)ignoramus Wrote: If I were you Mark, I'd go and get tested for Lysdexia!
Or daily sex.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 10:41 am
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(It wouldn't be for me, I 100% pick the second to last option but . . .) There totally needs to be a "None of them. Fuck all possibly conceivable gods even the really nice ones, completely innocently incompetent ones and totally 'badass' ones. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all." . . . option ... at least just for Minimalist if for no one else.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 11:08 am
Would I be happy to learn there was a god? Depends entirely on what kind of god it is.
I suppose the only god I would be happy to discover existed is one that didn't want or need me to worship it.
So the closest poll answer would be the last one but I don't exactly see the need to add on all the "drastically older," "relates to you" stuff. Its age has no bearing to me on whether I'd be happy it exists.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 11:36 am
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A lot of folks are talking about worship and how they see that as an ego thing and how that turns them off. On the surface level, I can see how you guys feel that way.
But I think perhaps you're seeing it in a way that isn't as it was intended. Or at least in a way that is completely different from how I see it. To worship means to have reverence and adoration for, right? Now, if there was a God who was literally the embodiment of love and goodness itself, wouldn't it make sense to adore those things? To bow down before them, give yourself over to them, put them above all else?
The way I see it, since my belief in God is that He is love and goodness, worshiping Him isn't just about praying and going to church. Though those things are definitely a supplemental/important part of it, in isolation by themselves they aren't true adoration for love and goodness. That part of it get's put into action by how we treat the people and the world around us. We can't really adore goodness and love if we don't strive for those things, make them a main focus of life, and act act accordingly.
So it's not that God *needs* us to worship Him as part of some ego boost thing. It's that He *wants* us to worship Him because He made us for love and knows true happiness and fulfillment will come from embracing it and knowing it as fully as possible. And part of that comes from knowing and adoring Him, whom is Himself love.
I know yall don't believe any of that, but I wanted to clarify the whole worship thing as I see it and was taught it.
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