A Loving God

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By the way, I generally take people at their word that they believe in the particular mythology that they profess to. I believe they are experiencing something, which they genuinely think is related to it.

They can't expect me to suddenly start experiencing things this way and associating everyday events with an ancient story; any more than I can expect them to stop doing so.

However, even if I did start experiencing these things, I wouldn't care. I'm not interested in worship or joining cults. I won't change my behaviour due to the opinion of some external being, unless the being explains why I should do so. "Because you'll receive lesser treatment once you're dead if you don't" is not adequate. "Because I know better than you" is also not convincing, when we're dealing with subjective value judgements. If he "loves" me, good for him.

I often ask why I should care about any of this stuff even if it is real, and it's extremely rare I get an answer besides "obey or burn" or "wouldn't it be interesting". Sure, it would indeed be interesting, if I could actually study it in any way. But it's all carefully defined to be unstudy-able.