RE: Show me your proof
April 7, 2013 at 4:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2013 at 4:05 pm by Whateverist.)
(April 7, 2013 at 4:48 am)Mr_Dew7 Wrote: I just want to see what proof you have for or against God. Not intending to turn this into a nasty debate, I just want to hear what you all have to say about the subject of the God that I believe in, from every religious view. If you would be so kind!
I have nothing deserving of being called evidence for or against God. But that isn't my biggest problem. I really have no idea what attributes exactly a god needs to qualify as one.
Apparently a really old, wise and powerful race of aliens wouldn't qualify. The Christian god is said to have limitless omni- powers, but is that a defining characteristic of gods generally? I don't know. Likewise with eternal being. How could we possibly know?
Do gods have to be responsible for creating something from nothing? Do they qualify if they work with what they have at hand or do they literally have to wink it into existence? Even if they do create stuff, does the stuff they create have to represent a deliberate, high quality attempt on their part? What if some enormous, ancient beings went about literally shitting galaxies? If those galaxies give rise to planets, abiogenesis and sentient beings, would that qualify them for the god moniker? What I'm asking is, if a being gives rise to life but only unintentionally, does that make it a god?
How about morality and judgment? Does a god have to be obsessed with our manners? What if it really doesn't give a shit what we do? Hell, it might not even be any more aware of us than we are of it. To count as a god, does the being have to care what we do and sort us out for eternal reward or torture?
There is more that puzzles me about the term "god" but I think you get my drift. Can you help me out at all? We sure can't acquire any evidence for gods if we can't agree on what we're looking for. Can you really blame me for dismissing the whole question without forming any belief about gods whatsoever? Ever since I went out one night with my sack calling for snipe and came home without any, I've had to question whether half the shit people claim is true at all. Is god a hoax? Hell if I know.
