RE: Cthulhu's Wager
February 16, 2012 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2012 at 2:21 pm by Welsh cake.)
(February 14, 2012 at 3:28 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Besides, if God really wants me to worship him, all he's got to do is show me that he exists and is worthy of worship.Indeed. If you're a humanist, worshipping a suddenly-demonstrable deity is not just unlikely but inconceivable. The world hasn't changed, a lot of people are still living wretched miserable existences that would make any sane individual who cares about the rest of humanity irreconcilable with a god. Theists expecting devotion from everyone, and every knee bowing, when their god doesn't care about everyone is unrealistic.
Even if said god was omni-benevolent and magically just changed the rules of reality so that death, suffering and loss were impossible you'd still be under no obligation to worship it, but to seek to 'befriend' the being instead.
And also if the deity in question is perfect then it has no want or need for worship from humans, which subsequently fucks over the very fundamental concept and core practices of virtually every monotheistic religion out there.
