(December 5, 2023 at 8:04 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(December 5, 2023 at 7:42 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: Do you think God is more like an authoritarian figure, and absolute monarchy, and a dictatorship; if in a subtle way?
People have pictured God in a lot of different ways.
The God that Hitchens describes, and that people tend to argue against on this forum, is certainly a tyrant. As far as I can tell, this view of God comes from a literal reading of the Old Testament and some fire-and-brimstone type preachers.
The God of Plato, of Aristotle, of Augustine, of Dante, and many etc., is not at all a tyrant or authority figure.
I guess i should have clarified. I did mean God of modern religions, mostly Christianity, in this case.
But to take a step back, I guess what I did mean when I asked this question, what I really meant, was (and I simply put)...
Don't you all find it funny that a nonexistent being like God has a hold on so many people in this world, in a way like an authoritarian person?
