RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
July 8, 2023 at 11:50 am
Even if this universe needed or had a cause, there is no reason to assume whatever it was, was a god.
Just as the statement "god exists (eternally)" implies that god found itself in a Reality in which it did not participate in non-existence, there is, in every form of theism,
a larger unexamined Reality implied, in which the gods have no part. A real god would have to be the totality of Reality at some point, (under present definitions).
An omnipotent god could have created a race of competitive robot universe makers, vying with each other to make races of creatures, and the winner will be judged
by which one makes the universe where the humans make up the most ridiculous gods, and they get together for a good laugh.
Just as the statement "god exists (eternally)" implies that god found itself in a Reality in which it did not participate in non-existence, there is, in every form of theism,
a larger unexamined Reality implied, in which the gods have no part. A real god would have to be the totality of Reality at some point, (under present definitions).
An omnipotent god could have created a race of competitive robot universe makers, vying with each other to make races of creatures, and the winner will be judged
by which one makes the universe where the humans make up the most ridiculous gods, and they get together for a good laugh.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
