(February 26, 2013 at 12:07 am)Question Mark Wrote:(February 25, 2013 at 9:08 pm)Drich Wrote: If a man says he is looking for a dog, is it wrong to ask what the dog he is looking for looks like? Or are those who are helping the man look for the dog supposed to bring him every random dog that can be found till he/you approve of the dog before you?
Difference between a god and a dog, is that I've seen a dog before. I'm not sure that either you or I have ever seen a god.
To use your analogy, if you'd like to bring me every single god you know of to me until you find the right one to show me, be my absolute guest. If instead we're looking for clues as to the where abouts of the "dog", then some characteristics of the beast might be a start.
What characteristics of there of your god? That might set us on the path of discovering some clues to its existence.
And that is the heart of the matter. Religions makes enough impossible and contradictory claims about the characteristics of their gods as to establish them as being impossible to exist.
Example - "Almighty" (Nothing is impossible with god - Luke) - cannot be true. Any god claimed as such cannot exist.
Any religion that claims free will - and an All Knowing god - cannot be true as well -that is a direct contradiction.
It is in the "perfections" that religions prove their lack of reality.
Another example - in a monotheism - and in polytheisms like Xtianity where there was only ONE creator - that creator had to create everything good - and everything bad - because it would have ultimately created everything - no other being has that power.
So - in Xtianity - the creator god is the source of all evil and cannot be ALL good - ALL just - ALL fair - and lots of others.
