(January 17, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Your question boils down to: Why believe there is an explanation for lightning when Thor is so much more simple?
It would be far more straightforward to have a natural order created by a purposeful intelligence than a universe ruled over by various different gods controlling each and every part of nature. The Bible really goes to great lengths to dissuade people from believing in gods such as Thor. There is page after page of emphasis on this, it repeats this point over and over again trying to drill it in. The Jews kept trying to worship gods of fertility such as Baal or whatever so the prophets came along from time to time to tell them to stop doing that. They were told this because it was bloody stupid, these were just man made gods of wood and stone who could do nothing at all. God was telling them to stop looking to those and look to him.
Quote:Please, tell me something the non-existence of God would mean. I bet I can tell you a few things as well.
Do you like the idea of having your own rational logical freethinking mind? I don't mean the illusion of a rational logical freethinking mind but the real thing. Do you like the idea of being genuinely able to make your own rational moral decisions? Do you like like the idea of people being genuinely responsible for themselves and their own actions? Of course you do but if you were to understand that there would be no naturalist or material basis for these things you quite to experience a high degree of cognitive dissonance as you try to fight against what you subjectively know.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
