(October 13, 2017 at 10:34 am)Mathilda Wrote: Simple experiment. Pick an average person in the street, pull out and gun and point it at their head. Ask them if they believe that you are an alien that created reality.
Works for me every time.
Um no, lets not be advocating real crime here. I get the sarcasm though.
Yea it does address the broken logic of trying to attach a free choice to a reward/punishment motif. The deities of antiquity were concocted because humans falsely equated their success as being handed down to them, and back then most humans depended on their local rulers and those rulers were the ultimate bosses.
Crossing God is no different than crossing Kim Jong Un. Sure, God will treat his loyalists well, but dare disagree or try to leave, you suffer his revenge.
I have long liked Hitchen's description of the God character as being the "dear leader" of a "Celestial North Korea".
There is absolutely no morality in "obey me or else".
