RE: The nearness to God factor. How do Atheists feel about moving higher or lower?
April 21, 2014 at 3:06 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 2:56 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It should rather be reversed. What makes me think the Highest existence is God. I acknowledge a Higher Power and a Ultimate High Being, then chose to worship it, and thus it becomes God to me. I don't believe in a being worthy of worship, then say it's the highest. It's the other way around.
So to sum up: you've found something which you consider to be vastly (infinitely?) more powerful than yourself, then chose to make it your god. Without wishing to appear judgemental, what part of that would you consider to be rational were it to come from someone else?
For some reason I can't help being reminded of the nuke-worshipping mutant humans from Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.
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.'
