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Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
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RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
If I am to god as the ant is to me then I could no more love or worship said god than an ant can love or worship me. It I can have no more awareness of a god than an ant has of me then I'm not called to any action. I live my life in my limited intelligence just as the ant does in his.

On the other hand, no god named by humans has a life of his own to live, but spends all his time worrying about what humans are doing. In that way the comparison to ants breaks down.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself - by Rhondazvous - August 24, 2017 at 7:45 pm

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