RE: Question's for God.
September 4, 2016 at 8:57 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2016 at 10:51 am by Anomalocaris.)
(September 4, 2016 at 8:32 am)Little Rik Wrote:(September 4, 2016 at 7:44 am)Banjo Wrote: I just speed read this thread. It was quite easy.
OP. If you are indeed 12, take heart. I was an atheist at 4 and had full time work at age 12 as a hunter. The wild pigs were the most dangerous.
The main problem with this thread is no particular god is addressed.
To which god do you refer? For illness it should Asclepius. For joy and wine it should be Bacchus. For war it should be Mars etc.
The emperor Julian in his work Against the Galileans argued that angels must also be gods because they too were immortal. So what are angels? Are angels another name for the gods of other cultures? The Jewish god had nothing to do with the Hellenes. They had their own gods. Far more interesting gods at that.
There have been many gods. you need to choose one. And why one? and who created this one god? and what happened to that god? Was he eaten like Kronos by his son? And why a male god alone? How can it mate? Unless the god is a worm.
I have no questions for a god. I do not believe they exist except in the human imagination.
Human imagination may also let you believe that God was born or created one day, that is a male, that cause suffering to us, that it must mate, that created hell for the sinners and so many other funny things.
I wonder why so many people that don't believe in God fantasize about someone that according to them doesn't exist?
Perhaps because they have the sort of neural circuitry which in them allows them to fantasize about realizing a known to be nonexistent probability of sleeping with sports illustrated swim suit models; and in you allows you fantasize about realizing the (surely already known to be) nonexistent probability being taken more seriously than an orangutan here in AF.
