RE: Good news ... told by an idiot
January 20, 2016 at 3:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2016 at 3:48 pm by henryp.)
(January 20, 2016 at 1:43 pm)robvalue Wrote: Wally: It would be possible to have a relationship with God without worshipping it, or being part of an organised religion. If it insisted that I do a load of weird stuff and kiss its ass instead, I'm not interested. Of course, it could force me to if it wanted I guess. But then "God" is fairly likely to be wholly unremarkable, just another being in another reality that may not even be aware something it did caused a separate reality to manifest.
God isn't fairly likely to be anything. God doesn't exist. That's why it's weird to see people confident in their reaction to God. There isn't really even an understandable definition. Maybe meeting God would just break our brains and we'd go insane. Maybe God has some wild explanation that makes sense. Maybe he's a scary Cthulu type thing, and demands worship or we are devoured. There are a lot of possibilities when things being impossible is no longer an issue. And of course if we're dealing with the unfathomable, it's tough to gage what our reaction to that would be, because we can't fathom what the unfathomable would even be due to it's unfathomableness.
And even if you toss God aside, maybe now we've got souls, and eternal existences, and maybe some nefarious demons trying to harm us, and magic is a thing, and all the other crazy shit that may now be in play now that the impossible is possible.
You'd have to reevaluate things, right? If you are a science and reason person, all the science and reason you knew could be up in the air with a God in play. That's why to me, when a big chunk of people say "No religion for me, no matter what" in response to unfathomable events, it seems weird. But like I said, I think I just am wrong about some things in terms of how I thought other people think.
