(March 20, 2019 at 5:16 am)Belaqua Wrote:(March 20, 2019 at 3:28 am)Catharsis Wrote: the creator being a wicked psychopath
I think you'll see from the replies that people here focus their not-belief on a very specific image of God. Basically a naive literalist reading of the early Old Testament.
Though people are adamant that their not-belief extends to all the different images of God people have believed in, this is the one that they talk about. What William Blake called Nobodaddy. It doesn't matter that no theologian has ever agreed with that view.
Sometimes it seems as if people formed a view of the Christian God when they were about 12 years old, decided it was bad, and stopped believing. It doesn't occur to them that a 12-year-old might not have the most well-informed judgment.
I'm curious of your own view of this. Is there a way for you to describe your thoughts about what God is in a way that wouldn't require as many pages as Thomas Aquinas wrote? People here will insult you no matter what you say, so in that sense any reaction will be the same. But I'm curious.
I think it's interesting that atheists here indicate they don't want God to exist, that they prefer there be no God. I would say such a desire plays a significant role in why they don't believe. Creates a barrier to prevent belief.