RE: If there is no God, then, one may ask
December 11, 2013 at 6:56 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2013 at 6:56 am by Cyberman.)
I didn't say "govern to the extent. I said "I govern my life" (ie, no gods necessary) "to the extent that I have control over the things within my influence, and as far as that control ties in with external influences including other people governing their lives." Reading comprehension - it's not just for other people.
Put another way, I can decide what I do today and how I do those things. If I choose to visit a friend or go shopping, I have the control over doing that. The control I have over myself is absolute, inasmuch as I have the casting vote over my body. Such control is limited, though, when my actions come into contact with the real world outside myself - the shops may be closed, my friend may be out. There are some factors over which I have zero control: I have no way of knowing (prophet though I am
) whether this is the day that speeding car cuts me down.
Basically, I'm just the same as every other living creature since the dawn of life. If there is a god, as you're trying to assert, precisely where does it fit within the world? And why, since we do it all by ourselves anyway?
Put another way, I can decide what I do today and how I do those things. If I choose to visit a friend or go shopping, I have the control over doing that. The control I have over myself is absolute, inasmuch as I have the casting vote over my body. Such control is limited, though, when my actions come into contact with the real world outside myself - the shops may be closed, my friend may be out. There are some factors over which I have zero control: I have no way of knowing (prophet though I am
) whether this is the day that speeding car cuts me down.Basically, I'm just the same as every other living creature since the dawn of life. If there is a god, as you're trying to assert, precisely where does it fit within the world? And why, since we do it all by ourselves anyway?
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.'
