(April 25, 2016 at 9:15 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Hi C&S, I understand your confusion because though from an atheist perspective the answer to your question is obvious, from a believer's standpoint it's not so easy to just accept that answer. Also there are other religions out there who can theoretically give you an explanation because they don't believe in an omniscient, omnipotent god like the abrahamic god. But at the end of it all, no matter which religion you look at, you'll see it is humans who are defending their respective gods instead of it being the other way around, it is man who is coming up with all the explanations be it right or wrong. In most of the world man has made laws such that questioning the religion is to be considered a crime, why would any being more powerful than man, let alone an omniscient omnipotent being, require man's protection?
When someone tries to protect a god, I don't see a real god, I see humans protecting their own egos because of fear of being wrong. When someone says "Don't pick on my God" I get the image of a midget standing in front of The Terminator shouting "DON'T HIT MY GOD YOU MIGHT HURT HIM".
Why would something allegedly all powerful need help? Is the believer of any god saying this god is too weak to fight his own battles? Or is it maybe humans simply are defending what they want to be true because the thought of being unimportant to the universe is too frightening to them?
