RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 28, 2017 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2017 at 5:32 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I'd definitely not be happy if any version of any God from the Bible existed.
But there are plenty of genuinely nice Gods I could invent that I'd very much be happy existed.
Basically, a God I'd imagine would only intervene in order to prevent horrible disasters or immorality. Or better yet, they'd make such things impossible. One of my gods would actually give everyone permanent blissful happiness from birth, and the desire and ability to live forever in utter painlessness... and no desire or ability to ever harm any other living being. Everyone would be invincible and never feel pain... so it would simply not be possible to ever commit an immoral act. Animals would be invincible and never suffer pain too... if anyone wanted to hunt an animal they couldn't but they could hunt holograms of animals (and no one would ever be capable of desiring hunting an animal that was non-holographic). People could taste meat that would also be holographic, although no one would ever feel hungry, it would purely be for pleasure.
And another thing... the constant blissful happiness would always feel like blissful happiness. So no, it would never get boring because if it did... it wouldn't be constant blissful happiness (That whole "Heaven would get boring" thing is one argument I don't agree with. Well, unless we define Heaven as "talking to God" or "praising God" or some shit... WITHOUT the eternal bliss. If eternal bliss is genuinely involved, there is no boredom by definition).
I'd say the God of the OT is absolutely horrible to people pre-death... but if the God of the NT and everything they said were true... then that God would be even worse. Because hell is a thing in the NT, but not in the OT. And eternal suffering and torture forever is worse than suffering and torture in one lifetime.
But there are plenty of genuinely nice Gods I could invent that I'd very much be happy existed.
Basically, a God I'd imagine would only intervene in order to prevent horrible disasters or immorality. Or better yet, they'd make such things impossible. One of my gods would actually give everyone permanent blissful happiness from birth, and the desire and ability to live forever in utter painlessness... and no desire or ability to ever harm any other living being. Everyone would be invincible and never feel pain... so it would simply not be possible to ever commit an immoral act. Animals would be invincible and never suffer pain too... if anyone wanted to hunt an animal they couldn't but they could hunt holograms of animals (and no one would ever be capable of desiring hunting an animal that was non-holographic). People could taste meat that would also be holographic, although no one would ever feel hungry, it would purely be for pleasure.
And another thing... the constant blissful happiness would always feel like blissful happiness. So no, it would never get boring because if it did... it wouldn't be constant blissful happiness (That whole "Heaven would get boring" thing is one argument I don't agree with. Well, unless we define Heaven as "talking to God" or "praising God" or some shit... WITHOUT the eternal bliss. If eternal bliss is genuinely involved, there is no boredom by definition).
I'd say the God of the OT is absolutely horrible to people pre-death... but if the God of the NT and everything they said were true... then that God would be even worse. Because hell is a thing in the NT, but not in the OT. And eternal suffering and torture forever is worse than suffering and torture in one lifetime.
