(May 9, 2016 at 10:12 am)pocaracas Wrote: If there was a deity that wanted us to worship it, it would make itself known to us ALL.
As it stands, faulty human psychology seems to have been at work and generated all the presently known mythologies.
I'm open to "believing", if everyone suddenly starts "believing" in the same one deity (or deity group)... and, by believing, I mean "knowing".
This has always been one of my core issues... why should god favour those with low standards of evidence... those who essentially believe anything based only on headlines... over skeptics? They'll say it's about faith but it's not really because those with low standards still have to satisfy those standards. So if everybody has to satisfy their own standards of evidence in order to believe something and god provides enough 'evidence' to convince the easily convinced, I see no reason why he should not provide more evidence to people who just by their psychological make up require more or different types of evidence to believe something. The requirement of faith shouldn't be a measure of whether you believe something exists, which just comes down to individual differences in terms of gullability vs skepticism, but rather how you behave if you have been convinced that he exists... so not faith in the existence of god but rather faith in god given the knowledge of his existence. It just makes no sense to me that a god who really wanted souls would base all his decisions on this rather than how people behaved - such as whether they defied him like a fallen angel - with the actual knowledge that he exists, provided in whatever way is needed to suit the individual, whether easily led or skeptical.
