(November 30, 2015 at 6:42 pm)Quantum Wrote:(November 30, 2015 at 6:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'd be interested in new knowledge, sure. But it wouldn't change how I live my life, that's what I mean. Christians always seem to think I'll be desperate to worship it if they can just convince me it exists.
And I'd say a generic "God" certainly doesn't imply an afterlife, or anything else really. It just means something made our universe. It certainly doesn't follow that any of the old wives' tales about it have any truth.
No, but if there is a personal god which wields tese powers, it is very important to know what it is up to and what it thinks in order to try and avoid an eternity of unpleasant torment, just in case...
If there is a personal God, how would you determine which of the innumerable, muturally contradictory descriptions of his caprices you can chose from is most indicative of how he plans to toy with you? And how do you know he won't rip up all the rules just to fuck with you because he could and you can't do a thing about it?
So in that case how Can you trust there is real value in "knowing" what is going on in so far as he might let you "know" what is going on?
