RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Clearly, if the god of the bible was shown beyond all doubt to exist, I and most other atheists worthy of the name would have no choice but to accept that existence. There would still remain an incredible gulf between that and worshipping it, certainly the likelihood of my doing so would fall inversely to the entity's demands that I must. I reserve my worship solely for those I cannot bear to live without; an exclusive club indeed. It is most certainly not handed over to any tinpot dictator-cum-abusive father who delights in sub-childish power games, makes knowingly-impossible demands and needs a technicolour post-it note in the sky to remind itself not to destroy the world.
It's rather arcane and more than a little geeky, but this quote from a certain BBC sci-fi drama sums it up for me: "You want to live like slaves, live or die at the whim of a madman, then fine. But you're not taking me down with you!"
It's rather arcane and more than a little geeky, but this quote from a certain BBC sci-fi drama sums it up for me: "You want to live like slaves, live or die at the whim of a madman, then fine. But you're not taking me down with you!"
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.'
