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If there was a religion, what kind of God would you want?
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In my 49 years in and out of this body, the only thing I've ever seen worth worshiping ....
dropped me to my knees , made me bow and repeat "I'm not worthy !!! " ... Brooke Shields in Blue Lagoon !!!! Doc 
The otherwise forgettable Chris Atkins does have a pair of legs to die for.
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 RE: If there was a religion, what kind of God would you want?
February 15, 2015 at 11:30 am
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2015 at 11:33 am by Nope.)
 
If there were a god, I would want one that is completely incompatible with the world as we know it. I would want a perfectly good being that is omnipotent and omniscient. Being omnipotent, it could make the universe any way it wanted, and being perfectly good, it would want there would be no suffering of any kind for anyone or anything, so there would be no suffering of any kind.
Obviously, no such god exists, nor does any god exist that is even close to being of that description. If there were an omnipotent god, it would be evil, as it allows plenty of evil to happen. (Indeed, the world is better set up for suffering than for delight; for example, a person can more readily experience pain than pleasure.) Or if there were a perfectly good god, it would be more impotent than a man. A man can call the police when someone is being hurt, but god doesn't even manage that much help. The idea that there is a perfectly good being that is omnipotent and omniscient is one that deserves the most extreme ridicule possible, as it is about as moronic as any idea could possibly be. If there were such a god, this would be the best possible world. But even a halfwit can think of countless improvements that could be made. For the ridicule, Voltaire's Candide is a good start. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
 (February 14, 2015 at 9:16 pm)coolfunkDJ Wrote: So, if one religion was to exist, what kind of God would you want? Bacchus. But only if I can have dry riesling.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
All I know is that my god would look like Mila Kunis.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
My goddess would look and be like Zooey Deschanel.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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I'd want one of those weird, inscrutable-but-bestowed-with-insatiable-human-appetites kind of god, who wanders around boning everything that moves, fucking with people for no real reason, and just generally being strange in harmless ways.
That, you know, looks like Karen Gillan. 
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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