RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 20, 2019 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2019 at 9:42 am by possibletarian.)
(March 20, 2019 at 3:28 am)Catharsis Wrote: When the sun rises over the good and the bad
and the rain pours on the righteous as well as the wicked,
wouldn't you wish there's a god?
Besides all ideas about the creator being a wicked psychopath
wouldn't you wish for a loving god?
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Define what a loving god would look like perhaps ?
(March 20, 2019 at 5:16 am)Belaqua Wrote: 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.
So how do you go about deciding what is real or not meant to be taken as real ?
And how do you think theologians go about deciding the same question ?
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'