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Poll: Is there any aspect/type of god you as an atheist would be happy to discover existed? This poll is closed.
The biblical god in all his tyrannical, OT bad-assedness.	6.67%	1	6.67%
Just the loving hippy of the NT.	0%	0	0%
One that is concerned with human conduct and hands out eternal bliss or torture in a life-exit interview.	6.67%	1	6.67%
One that listens to 'prayers' or reads your mind and chooses life events with your development in mind; the 'world' for this sort of god is a kind of theater with no independent or necessary existence.	0%	0	0%
An all-powerful one that created everything from nothing just the way it is on purpose but has covered his tracks to make natural causes more plausible.	6.67%	1	6.67%
Not all-powerful, one possessed of some creative powers but not limitless, creating some forms but all from pre-existing substrata, not from 'nothing'.	26.67%	4	26.67%
One that is drastically older (approaching eternality?) and has seen it all but relates to you-as-consciousness as a kind of benevolent big brother and values your companionship without judgements or need for your worship.	53.33%	8	53.33%
Total		15 vote(s)	100%

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I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.

~~Edwardo Piet~~

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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.

August 28, 2017 at 7:15 pm (This post was last modified: August 28, 2017 at 7:17 pm by Edwardo Piet.)

(August 28, 2017 at 6:18 pm)emjay Wrote: A god that neither needs or wants the worship or even acknowledgement of its creations would be a good start; ie one who creates life not as an ego boost to itself... one that gives free will and truly values and respects it.

If only a concept of free will that were more than just a labeling of not having free will as "free will" were even logically coherent. There isn't a God that could make free will, due to that coherence. All that can be done with free will is label something that's indistinguishable from its non-existence as "free will".... kind of like God really.

If we didn't call doing something "of one's own free will", "free will", would there be any difference? Nope. Saying someone did something "on purpose" (whether their intentional action was done of their own free will or not!) would suffice.

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I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 28, 2017 at 2:48 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Mr.wizard - August 28, 2017 at 2:56 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Catholic_Lady - August 28, 2017 at 6:25 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Simon Moon - August 28, 2017 at 7:25 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Catholic_Lady - August 28, 2017 at 8:48 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Neo-Scholastic - August 28, 2017 at 8:18 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Astonished - August 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 28, 2017 at 2:58 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Jackalope - August 28, 2017 at 3:14 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Mister Agenda - August 28, 2017 at 3:16 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Cyberman - August 28, 2017 at 3:27 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by KevinM1 - August 28, 2017 at 3:33 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Shell B - August 28, 2017 at 3:50 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Longhorn - August 28, 2017 at 3:39 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Alex K - August 28, 2017 at 4:17 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Crossless2.0 - August 28, 2017 at 5:23 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by The Industrial Atheist - August 28, 2017 at 5:27 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - August 28, 2017 at 5:30 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by mlmooney89 - August 28, 2017 at 5:42 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - August 28, 2017 at 5:49 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by emjay - August 28, 2017 at 6:18 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - August 28, 2017 at 7:15 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by emjay - August 28, 2017 at 7:28 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by c172 - August 28, 2017 at 7:17 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Minimalist - August 28, 2017 at 7:22 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - August 28, 2017 at 8:13 pm

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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Astonished - August 28, 2017 at 9:14 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by ignoramus - August 29, 2017 at 4:42 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Pat Mustard - August 29, 2017 at 6:01 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by chimp3 - August 29, 2017 at 6:04 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 29, 2017 at 9:21 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 30, 2017 at 4:19 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Anomalocaris - August 29, 2017 at 8:00 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by brewer - August 29, 2017 at 8:15 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 29, 2017 at 8:30 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by The Valkyrie - August 29, 2017 at 8:39 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Sal - August 29, 2017 at 8:51 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Anomalocaris - August 29, 2017 at 9:23 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Amarok - August 29, 2017 at 9:07 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - August 29, 2017 at 8:19 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by AFTT47 - August 29, 2017 at 9:05 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Astonished - August 29, 2017 at 11:33 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by energizer bunny - August 30, 2017 at 1:28 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Astonished - August 30, 2017 at 9:38 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 30, 2017 at 10:37 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Crossless2.0 - August 30, 2017 at 1:26 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 30, 2017 at 4:01 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Simon Moon - August 30, 2017 at 4:34 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by ignoramus - August 31, 2017 at 5:01 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Cyberman - August 31, 2017 at 5:49 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 31, 2017 at 10:29 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Mister Agenda - August 30, 2017 at 9:41 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Cyberman - August 30, 2017 at 5:28 pm

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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Fireball - August 31, 2017 at 5:27 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - August 31, 2017 at 10:41 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Clueless Morgan - August 31, 2017 at 11:08 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Catholic_Lady - August 31, 2017 at 11:36 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 31, 2017 at 1:22 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Clueless Morgan - August 31, 2017 at 2:35 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 31, 2017 at 3:35 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Catholic_Lady - August 31, 2017 at 4:47 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Catholic_Lady - August 31, 2017 at 3:39 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by The Grand Nudger - August 31, 2017 at 11:46 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 31, 2017 at 3:42 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Clueless Morgan - August 31, 2017 at 4:19 pm

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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by J a c k - August 31, 2017 at 11:19 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by energizer bunny - September 1, 2017 at 12:11 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by J a c k - September 1, 2017 at 12:26 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by energizer bunny - September 1, 2017 at 1:31 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by J a c k - September 1, 2017 at 1:48 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by energizer bunny - September 1, 2017 at 2:07 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Clueless Morgan - August 31, 2017 at 6:59 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Whateverist - August 31, 2017 at 7:03 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Edwardo Piet - September 3, 2017 at 9:01 am

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Cyberman - August 31, 2017 at 10:27 pm

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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Cyberman - August 31, 2017 at 10:37 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by The Grand Nudger - August 31, 2017 at 11:01 pm

RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by ignoramus - September 1, 2017 at 4:38 am

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