Leaving aside presupposition for the moment, in order to come to the conclusion that "God" is morality personified - or deified - you would need to assess its actions and intentions against your own inbuilt moral compass. It's like when someone tries to argue that there's a better way of discovering truth than the scientific method, failing to realise that they have to use that very method to determine what that better way would be and whether it works.
Taking what I actually described of my morality in account, I judge "God"'s morality as vastly inferior. The character is vengeful, vain, vindictive, petty, spiteful, murderous, bloodthirsty and just plain not nice. I am none of those things, at least by nature.
We've gone over this ground of where do our morals come from if not imposed by an external agency so many times before. For now, I'd just add this. Don't you think it belittles the glory of your god's creation that you believe happened, to hold that it was incapable (for whatever reason) of creating a species that was self-maintaining? One that requires - no, needs - a sense of morality imprinted into its psyche instead of being an emergent property of its nature? I'm reminded of a comedy skit that probably never happened, in which someone is decorating a room and has to use all his arms and legs and whatever else is to hand to keep the paper on the walls, continually having to micro-manage the whole enterprise instead of doing the job properly in the first place.
Either way, it's a joke.
Taking what I actually described of my morality in account, I judge "God"'s morality as vastly inferior. The character is vengeful, vain, vindictive, petty, spiteful, murderous, bloodthirsty and just plain not nice. I am none of those things, at least by nature.
We've gone over this ground of where do our morals come from if not imposed by an external agency so many times before. For now, I'd just add this. Don't you think it belittles the glory of your god's creation that you believe happened, to hold that it was incapable (for whatever reason) of creating a species that was self-maintaining? One that requires - no, needs - a sense of morality imprinted into its psyche instead of being an emergent property of its nature? I'm reminded of a comedy skit that probably never happened, in which someone is decorating a room and has to use all his arms and legs and whatever else is to hand to keep the paper on the walls, continually having to micro-manage the whole enterprise instead of doing the job properly in the first place.
Either way, it's a joke.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
