(July 23, 2015 at 7:38 pm)abaris Wrote:(July 23, 2015 at 7:30 pm)IATIA Wrote: The only question tougher than "What is a god?".
The much better question would be, why would any god worthy of it's title even care. An omniscent, omnipotent and eternal being should care about worship by something being much less than an ant colony in comparison?
One of our theist residents made a remark about a "big god" being outside of morality. In it's stupidity that remark also had some involuntary wisdom to it. A "big god" is like the claim of a "big dick". Entirely human, a bully, full of vices. A "great god" wouldn't care about any of it, since it would be beyond him to give a shit.
All god would have to do is dream us into existence. How much could one care about the characters in a dream? Effectively, we would not even be real from the god's perspective.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
