Mary's Ten Year Pregnancy

[The Grand Nudger]

I think you may have missed the thrust there.  Whatever idea Min might have, it's generally accepted that some "god" could and would have a better one.  Lowly human worms that we are. 

So....it's easy to see how we can and have fucked the pooch, and maybe no one actually has any idea of how to fix that.....but is that option truly open to a person contending that magic book is the word of a god? Magic book could have been written in an angelic font and language that all readers would recognize in their own and free of ambiguity or error.  God could have "spoken" in such a way that all heard the same words in all languages simulataneously.  We obviously can't do anything like that...but why can't a god?

What "god"...the author of creation, lord of the cosmos, that which sees and knows all, decided to do..instead of whatever else it could have done.....write a comic book in gutter-greek.

Now, is that any less ridiculous than sitting in a cloud and tossing thunderbolts down on the proles because you're angry at the orientation of your devotional figurines in the toilet shrine, ala Zues?

Why should things be so easy? 

...for a god?  I suspect that "things" would be relatively easy, at least...compared to ourselves.  The thing is supposed to be omni-competent, is it not?  

I can only speak for myself here, but I like to push myself to learn things or find truth.  If things were spoon fed to me, I would get bored and even become complacent.  It's waking up each morning and having purpose that drives me to be who I am.  So I get wanting things to come a bit easier, but for some of us, we would be upset if that's how things were.

So a god shit the bed to keep you from getting bored and upset? That seems like an awfully myopic reason to do something so fundamentally stupid that is alleged to have incredibly profound consequences. Consider what you're telling me, here. That you would find it upsetting and boring..if a god were a more competent communicator. Really?

As far as someone sitting in a cloud or tossing thunderbolts, I'm not sure what you're basing that off of, but I think that type of thing was mean more as something satirical.  Same with a devil running around with a pitchfork.  But if you base your views off attempts at satire, you may miss the mark.  I have friends who are atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and a number of other beliefs, but we communicate with respect even when we disagree on something.  Why? Because we're buddies and even though we disagree on something sometimes, we're still friends and have much in common regardless of disagreements.

I'm asking you, bluntly and directly....whether or not the notion of a god who writes a failed magic comic book in gutter-greek is any less ridiculous than a god who tosses thunderbolts. 

That's the thrust of the "when you understand why you reject those other gods, you'll understand why I reject yours" quote.