RE: If there was a loving God, would you accept him?
April 21, 2014 at 3:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2014 at 3:35 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 21, 2014 at 3:19 pm)ns1452 Wrote: Ladies and Gentleman,
I would like to propose the following question to those who are Atheist:
If there was a loving God, would you accept him? Please explain why or why not.
I realize that this may seem like an overly basic question. But I am trying to better understand the presuppositions (metaphysical dream) that is behind the Atheist belief system. For this to help me improve my understanding of the Atheist belief system, I need everyone to be truthful and forthcoming about the question.
I look forward to hearing everyone's comments.
Thanks,
Nathan
If there was a god of any type, mean, cruel, indifferent, king, or an insufferable dotting nanny, I would accept him/her/it.
My believe system is to accept anything that appears to exist to the exact degree to which its existence is probable based on available evidence.
The evidence suggests the probability of the existence of something which some primitive, or some impressionable modern yokel, might call god is actually high. But the rub is I am not a primitive or an impressionable modern yokel, and the same thing the likes of them might call god I would not call god.
Good evidence of the existence of a particular thing with defining attributes that Christian ascribe to their god, on the other hand, is essentially nonexistent. So it has nothing to do with whether it is kind or loving. It has to do with probability of existence.