(December 7, 2012 at 10:03 am)Kirbmarc Wrote: The main difference being?God has rights over people that people don't have over each other.
Quote:So if I invented an artificial intelligence I would be free to do to him whatever I want.Yes. If it starts worshipping god and that pisses you off, you can shut it down if you like.
Quote:If failing to worship a psychopath who plays with the lives of innocent people to win a bet is a shortcoming, I'm proud of this shortcoming.No, the shortcoming is the inability to understand you fellow man.
A lot of atheists say "I can't understand why a theist..." They think that's an argument against the ... somehow, when really it's just an admission of their own inability to understand others. I can understand a variety of reasons that atheists believe as they do.
Quote:I'd be interested in your reading your assumptions of my reasons for not worshipping this repulsive jerk, but I'm sure that you would just say that I'm either too dumb to understand your point (and this, my friend, is blatantly untrue: what you are saying amounts to "might makes right", it's not that difficult to understand even for my limited intellect) or that I'm inherently evil (because I don't kiss the ass of a genocide dictactor who torments an innocent for kicks).I'd say it's a combination of lack of evidence, disagreement with God's rules and actions regarding men, disagreement on the rights of a creator, disagreement that people in general are evil.
