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?

I only said Jehovah.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

(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!!!!

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.