RE: Why sometimes I incline to Atheism and how I rationalize myself out of it.
June 8, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2014 at 3:24 pm by Cyberman.)
(June 8, 2014 at 2:35 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't think it's a useless God. Perhaps it with it's immense knowledge and wisdom, knows the natural laws would be enough to create life all over the universe.
Of course it's useless. If it's bound by natural physical laws and incapable of doing anything that would not otherwise occur in nature, then it has no role as a god.
(June 8, 2014 at 2:35 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: This also doesn't take away his role in constantly causing existence to exist, just not playing intervention role. Also life after death etc, all can happen, but this universe with diverse life has it's wisdom in which it would be governed by natural laws.
Firslty, what makes you think this god takes the masculine pronoun; and secondly, what makes you think this god is even there in the first place? Your whole argument is the equivalent of the famous dragon-repelling stones - clearly they must work, because there are no dragons around. You don't take into account the possibility that existence might just not need any intervention to keep causing it. Basically you're saying “how else could my feet stay on the ground if there isn't a disembodied spiritual mind keeping them there?“ You're adding a whole layer of mystery where there cannot be reasoned to be one. You need to demonstrate that there is a “there“ there, before we can even begin to entertain discussion about what it might be.
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.'
