(February 5, 2016 at 2:48 am)robvalue Wrote: If God tried to make us so we would believe in him, then guess what? He failed. If it was so damn important to him, he should have given us proper sensory equipment so we could actually detect him and/or stop hiding like a little bitch.
Even then, I'm not looking for things to worship. I'm not looking to be told how to live my life by commandment. I'll happily have a sensible conversation with him. His feeble attempts to communicate so far through ancient texts coupled with contradictory, unconvincing accounts from theists is how a dribbling maniac would communicate. Or perhaps, someone with very little power who makes a last desperate attempt to get someone to notice them. Like a message in a bottle.
Shades of Hume there -- might not this god be a toddler assaying his first attempt? Might not the god who created this Universe be senile, and we are left to suffer his dotage?
Might not this allegedly perfect god suffer some malignancy, that this world is as imperfect as it is?
A Perfect Carpenter doesn't build a crooked cabinet.
