Why?

[Justtristo]

For sake of argument, let us assume that there is an all-powerful, all-intelligent entity that was the beginning of all that is and call this entity god.

Why did god create all this? Was he bored? Could not find anything else to do? What was he doing before this? When he gets tired of these toys, then what?

This is actually reason number one that I started on my path to atheism. I called it nonsense. Then as I grew older and adopted logic and reason, it went from nonsense to totally impossible.

(It was during my evolution to logic and reason that I started reading the bible on my own rather than the select 'pretty' stories. Man did that hurt!)

Well if you are a Trinitarian Christian you would say god created the universe and especially humanity as a bride for his "son". Seriously I am not making it up, because one of my guilty pleasures is listening and reading sermons by a preacher named John Macarthur. I remember him talking about this in one of his sermons.

You can read, listen and watch his sermons for free on this website http://www.gty.org/

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Hell gets my vote!!

Revelations is a treatise from some drug fucked dude on crystal meth from my last reading of it

Actually like the Book of Daniel it is a political commentary of sorts. The book of Daniel was likely written after the Maccabean Revolt (around 150 BCE) and Revelation during the reign of the Domitian (although it is likely set during the reign of Nero in order to make it prophetic). It is called making predictions after the fact.

The beast and the number 666 or 616 refer to Nero by the way, the beast was one of Nero's nicknames. Not to mention while the aristocracy hated him, the plebs loved him, which explains the whole the beast being loved by humanity thing in revelation quite nicely.