(November 21, 2016 at 1:17 am)theologian Wrote:(November 21, 2016 at 12:08 am)Astreja Wrote: I don't need to deny your god, Theologian. I merely have to look around, see no particularly convincing evidence, and then carry on with life as usual. Even if your god does exist, it is currently irrelevant and not worth worrying about.
We don't stop at seeing. We continue by looking for the cause of things. Why is there something, instead of nothing? And, if it is true that we all want to be happy and that is really the case, and if to be happy is to possess the good, and if God is Goodness Himself, then it follows that God is so relevant for us.
Speaking for Myself, I don't generally waste time "looking for the cause of things." I don't actually care that much about the question "why is there something, instead of nothing?" because religious answers are unconvincing and scientific answers are a work in progress, and neither is particularly relevant to My life.
If you are specifically promoting the god described in the Bible, I reject even the whiff of a possibility that such a being could be "Goodness Himself." I've read the Bible, you see, and found it grievously wanting. Rarely have I read such an unspeakably awful dog's breakfast of silly mythology, divine bad behaviour and ludicrous rationalizations of unconscionable morality. I could sit down with a word processor, a six-pack of beer and a long weekend and come up with a better "holy book" than that Myself.
