(April 26, 2014 at 4:34 pm)nogodchick Wrote: Can anyone tell me why, if there is a God, he created the world in the first place. It would be a bit self-indulgent of him, surely. Wouldn't he have to be some sort of a power crazed Voyeur to do any of this in the first place? Why would a just and loving God create a world and then watch its creatures suffering for millennium after millennium.
What the hell was God thinking? I have yet to hear a convincing argument advanced about this. Perhaps non atheists could take a shot at answering this question
Intelligent creatures like making things, so God creates the universe. It's fun and challenging and there is a feeling of achievement. However that does not mean that God wants or needs a personal relationship with one insignificant species on a tiny ball of rock located in the fringes of a pretty common type of galaxy. Perhaps our species wasn't created specifically but was a by-product of God creating the universe.
Keep in mind that it does not necessarily follow that just because a deity exists, it either cares about us humans, or wants us to worship him. Simply accepting the existence of a deity need not necessarily produce the religions we are familiar with. Why should God care whether we live or die, or want to dictate which hand we should eat with, how many partners we take etc?
