(November 10, 2012 at 1:45 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:This is just a red herring, since bible god doesn't just stand by and watch. That's deism, not Christianity.(November 10, 2012 at 12:12 pm)SpecUVdust Wrote: ...You hold that anthill's future in your hands. You are their "god." Seeing as how you have the ability to do whatever you desire, then it is logical that whatever you do will be based on what you "desire" to do. Whatever you want to do, you will do. you would not desire to do one thing, yet do another...
What if the anthill god wanted to do nothing but sit and watch ant behaviour? What if anthill god exercised self-restraint and resisted the temptation to intervene all the time?
The Christian God, as you should know since you purport to worship him, supposedly took out many acts of aggression on his "anthill" early on. And even now, he still intervenes to create miracles, or to punish the unjust (like with earthquakes and hurricanes and stuff). Right? So stop using a deist argument to argue for your interfering Christian god. It fails
Few atheists will argue much against a deistic god, because by its nature, being non-interfering (not even a god of the gaps, except to start the ball rolling I think), there wouldn't necessarily be evidence it existed. This is the exact opposite for extremely interfering bible god of the all 3 Judeo Christian religions.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
