(February 18, 2012 at 1:09 am)Thorham Wrote: I don't think omnipotent beings need to be worshiped. Worship is nothing but a ridiculous idea invented by humans.
Truly.
And even more to the point what would an omnipotent being need devoted "servants" for?
In Christianity the idea is that no man can resist "sin". Sin is nothing other than a desire to disobey God. So supposedly all men have an innate desire designed into them by their designer God to want to disobey God. And they cannot override this desire to disobey God on their own.
So the idea is that they need to ask for "Grace". When they ask for grace, this God supposedly comes into their heart and removes this desire to disobey him. (i.e. God removes the person's free will choice and replaces it with a desire to only do the will of God)
Christians often claim that their God doesn't want puppets. Yet this is precisely what their religion demands that their God turns people into when they accept his 'grace'.
He takes away their personal free will and replaces it will a will to only do God's will.
Moreover, there would not be a single solitary person in this God's heavenly kingdom who got there via their own merit. Everyone who makes it to haven can only get there via the 'grace' of God.
So it's ultimately a picture of a supposedly omnipotent God who has created a heaven filled with unworthy puppets who have been converted from beings who used to have 'free will' into puppets who can now only do God's will because they no longer have any choice in the matter.
This God would have been far better off just designing programmable puppets in the first place.
And he needs these obedient puppets for what? Servants?
What does an powerful God need puppet servants for?
What could they possible offer an omnipotent God?
About the only thing they could offer is some form of companionship, or constant worship to boost the God's eternally jealous ego.
The people who made up these fairy tales clearly weren't very bright.
They never stopped to think of why a supposedly omnipotent God would need to be worshiped by a bunch of unworthy losers who ultimately had to be raped of their own free will just to obtain his grace anyway.
This has truly got to be the stupidest story ever written by mankind.
Christian - A moron who believes that an all-benevolent God can simultaneously be a hateful jealous male-chauvinistic pig.
Wiccan - The epitome of cerebral evolution having mastered the magical powers of the universe and is in eternal harmony with the mind of God.
Atheist - An ill-defined term that means something different to everyone who uses it.
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Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Clearly Jesus (a fictitious character or otherwise) will forgive people if they merely know not what they do
For the Bible Tells us so!
Wiccan - The epitome of cerebral evolution having mastered the magical powers of the universe and is in eternal harmony with the mind of God.
Atheist - An ill-defined term that means something different to everyone who uses it.
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Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
Clearly Jesus (a fictitious character or otherwise) will forgive people if they merely know not what they do
For the Bible Tells us so!
