RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 13, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Yea, OK, I'd worship.
I can only think of a couple of scenarios in which God can prove His existence to me.
1) The mental crowbar technique in which God the almighty alters my mind in such a way that I no longer have free will to worship or not. Result is worship.
2) God is able to convince me that He is not a Cartesian demon capable of clouding my vision without interfering with my skepticism. The only way to show this is to grant me power sufficient (e.g. as much as God) to keep God from crowbarring my mind (see 1 above.) As I then would have the same powers as God, sure I'd worship me.
There is a third method in which God convincingly pretends to give me those powers, but it's really just a version of the first, God crowbars my mind, method.
I can only think of a couple of scenarios in which God can prove His existence to me.
1) The mental crowbar technique in which God the almighty alters my mind in such a way that I no longer have free will to worship or not. Result is worship.
2) God is able to convince me that He is not a Cartesian demon capable of clouding my vision without interfering with my skepticism. The only way to show this is to grant me power sufficient (e.g. as much as God) to keep God from crowbarring my mind (see 1 above.) As I then would have the same powers as God, sure I'd worship me.
There is a third method in which God convincingly pretends to give me those powers, but it's really just a version of the first, God crowbars my mind, method.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
