RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
August 31, 2017 at 2:35 pm
(August 31, 2017 at 11:36 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The way I see it, since my belief in God is that He is love and goodness
This makes no sense to me because by saying things like "God is love" you're saying that God is an emotion. Why should I worship an emotion?
It equally makes no sense to be to say "God is goodness" because that would mean that God is a subjective concept. Why should I worship a subjective concept? I understand that you probably don't see the concept of goodness as subjective, you probably think that there is some objective goodness that God... is... but by stating such you are then burdened with having to demonstrate that this goodness you think God is really is objective, and simply stating that "that's how I was raised/taught/what I believe," as I think you already know, isn't going to convince any of the atheists in this forum...
So we're left with:
Why should I worship an emotion?
Why should I worship a concept (whether it's subjective or objective)?
I can agree that things like love and goodness are ideals worth striving for in the same way that I think equality and justice are ideals worth striving for, but I don't need a god to embody any of these things for me to think they're worthwhile, I only need compassion and empathy.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.