RE: pop morality
February 25, 2016 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2016 at 12:53 pm by drfuzzy.)
Drich Wrote:[url=http://atheistforums.org/post-1210279.html#pid1210279][/url]
God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end to all Things.
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I fail miserably at the quote function 9 times out of 10, so I just cut and pasted.
Interested in the purple bolded above. Drippy. If we could demonstrate that God exists, he would no longer be God.
Elaborate on that a bit. Because it's a major premise of mine for atheism.
God wants ALL PEOPLE to know him. However, all we have had to go by for the last 2000+ years at least is a set of highly flawed books and a bunch of priests/preachers. These preachers have managed to convince much less than 1/4 of the people on the planet. (Actually, if you only count the Catholics, who are the only people going to heaven according to Pope Benedict, the number is 16%.) This, by itself, is a completely useless system for telling a population "hey folks, I'm here". In another post, someone pointed out that god shouldn't need prophets OR books. God is omniscient and omnipotent. A creature with those attributes wouldn't fuck up sending a simple message THIS BADLY. And in our day and age, a 10-year-old on Facebook can get a credible message to every nation on earth. So your god is a complete communications failure, but if we could prove he exists, he wouldn't be god anymore? Say what?
(02-17-2016, 03:19 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Wrote:@DritchIf we could then he would no longer be God... However God has provided a path that if anyone were to follow would indeed Find Him.
Your premise, god equals righteousness fails initially on two counts: no one can demonstrate there is a god;
Quote: Wrote:and no one can agree about what god is.I can promise you we (all bible believeing people Jew and Christian alike) agree on what God is.
God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end to all Things.
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I fail miserably at the quote function 9 times out of 10, so I just cut and pasted.
Interested in the purple bolded above. Drippy. If we could demonstrate that God exists, he would no longer be God.
Elaborate on that a bit. Because it's a major premise of mine for atheism.
God wants ALL PEOPLE to know him. However, all we have had to go by for the last 2000+ years at least is a set of highly flawed books and a bunch of priests/preachers. These preachers have managed to convince much less than 1/4 of the people on the planet. (Actually, if you only count the Catholics, who are the only people going to heaven according to Pope Benedict, the number is 16%.) This, by itself, is a completely useless system for telling a population "hey folks, I'm here". In another post, someone pointed out that god shouldn't need prophets OR books. God is omniscient and omnipotent. A creature with those attributes wouldn't fuck up sending a simple message THIS BADLY. And in our day and age, a 10-year-old on Facebook can get a credible message to every nation on earth. So your god is a complete communications failure, but if we could prove he exists, he wouldn't be god anymore? Say what?
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein