RE: A serious question for theists
November 8, 2016 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2016 at 10:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@The OP
The feeling itself, that they have, that's real regardless of whether or not the subject is accurate or existent. It might be relevant in a real relationship, with an actual person...if there were a disparity between what a person felt about how someone felt toward them and how that person actually did feel about them. If, for example, they felt that a person loved them when...in point of fact...that person hated them. It's easy to see how that would lead to tears and misery. However, since god isn;t -doing- anything to these people regardless, it's not much of an issue from that front.
Though, I would say, that the hint of an issue expresses itself in alphas comments above, which, while being a perfectly legitimate answer to your question...is the sort of thing that might -be- a problem if he stopped believing in the god that loved him. That somehow, someway, things devolve to some sort of meaninglessness and nihilism if god didn't love him.
Thing is, people who fall away from the one belief, generally find other justifications for meaning in this life, or any next life they might believe in. They -usually- have them in mind concurrently with whatever meaning they ascribe to all of this by relation to god or gods love....such that they don't, upon waking up one day and finding that they no longer believe, run out and murder someone because "fuck it, nothing i do or believe matters to this or the next". I;m sure there;s always going to be that one nutball, the exception that proves the rule....but I'm not too worried about that guy. He's probably already in a padded cell somewhere, you can't even hide that kind of crazy with religion.
The feeling itself, that they have, that's real regardless of whether or not the subject is accurate or existent. It might be relevant in a real relationship, with an actual person...if there were a disparity between what a person felt about how someone felt toward them and how that person actually did feel about them. If, for example, they felt that a person loved them when...in point of fact...that person hated them. It's easy to see how that would lead to tears and misery. However, since god isn;t -doing- anything to these people regardless, it's not much of an issue from that front.
Though, I would say, that the hint of an issue expresses itself in alphas comments above, which, while being a perfectly legitimate answer to your question...is the sort of thing that might -be- a problem if he stopped believing in the god that loved him. That somehow, someway, things devolve to some sort of meaninglessness and nihilism if god didn't love him.
Thing is, people who fall away from the one belief, generally find other justifications for meaning in this life, or any next life they might believe in. They -usually- have them in mind concurrently with whatever meaning they ascribe to all of this by relation to god or gods love....such that they don't, upon waking up one day and finding that they no longer believe, run out and murder someone because "fuck it, nothing i do or believe matters to this or the next". I;m sure there;s always going to be that one nutball, the exception that proves the rule....but I'm not too worried about that guy. He's probably already in a padded cell somewhere, you can't even hide that kind of crazy with religion.
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