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Poll: Is there any aspect/type of god you as an atheist would be happy to discover existed?
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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%
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I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
IMO, only possible god would be very different from one we anthropomorphize, so I don't agree with any of those options.

Think about it. Would a timeless, eternal god even consider life as important for its creation? it's easy to put ourselves in the centerpiece because we and life on Earth is all we know. A lot of what can be imagined beyond our Earth would be negligible for a god. Such a god, IMO, would probably only concern itself with more interesting aspects of its creation, like seeing events unfold which it would not be able to predict the outcome for (would it even have omni-attributes?) like black holes or, quantum "foaming", but this already partially anthropomorphizes a god and its possible attributes, like human emotions of boredom, excitement, etc. Maybe it would never become bored because it just stared at the internal fusion of a M-class star for a few millions years before going onto staring at particle/virtual particle pairs forming on the edge of a black hole's event horizon.

This assumes a lot of the attributes and abilities of a creator god.
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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 Sal - August 29, 2017 at 8:51 am

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