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No. A creator is not automatically worthy of thanks. Any being that would create a world as messed up as this one deserves hatred and contempt. It could not possibly be worthy of thanks.
(October 8, 2015 at 8:32 pm)Jenny A Wrote: No being that wants to be worshiped, let alone demands to be worshiped, should be worshiped. A loving, caring, helpful god would be worthy of thanks. So would a creator. But worship? Why would a powerful being want human worship?
No. A creator is not automatically worthy of thanks. Any being that would create a world as messed up as this one deserves hatred and contempt. It could not possibly be worthy of thanks.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.