(June 10, 2014 at 3:40 am)Esquilax Wrote:(June 10, 2014 at 3:18 am)Theonewhoanswersyourquestions Wrote: God does not order these things to be done, he give humanity punishment for what they do, and you just see them as tyrannical doings, Gods work is done on a much larger scale for you to understand, this is the same as if you do something your parents don't want you to do, the spank you, it gives you pain and should tell you not to do it again, but humanity as a whole is as a child, and does not learn from one punishment, so the punishment gets worse as the sin in the Earth continues to grow, it sucks, but if humanity wasn't such a terrible race, it be a whole lot better but God gives us the mercy to continue to live the way we want, if God was not kind and merciful, he'd FORCE us to bow down to him, and forcefully command us in life
And if any other being decided to use slavery, genocide and so on as punishments, you would label them a monster. Why does god get away with treating everyone so much worse than you expect any given human to treat you?
I had a dream that answered this once. Basically if you suffer in this life then you have eternal happiness. Essentially this world is full of sin and basically it is a test to see how determined you are which is why a lot of the good die young and most older generation world leaders are warmongering psychopaths.
But I also had a dream about KFC once, and one where I was in a war zone, and one where it was just a normal day, and one where I had some crazy good sex... I think god is a pretty ambiguous term, a bit like love. I wouldn't really trust one group of people or one book to define the personal experience of billions.
If that experience is "delusional" in one's perception then so be it. But I do notice the OP craves for that delusion again. I know I'd prefer it if Santa exists. I know I'd prefer the world as a 7 year old again...
But you know a lot of people who do heroin say it feels like chicken soup and a blanket when you are sick. They are describing love and self-medicating themselves with an opiate.
So in short I don't begrudge people who need to live in what one may perceive as a dream-world. A 2014 atheistic perception of truth is possibly the most depressing existence to someone with an exceptional experience of the universe, and whose preceptors and synapses have fired beyond utopia and euphoria...
That is god to some people. Of course it makes sense to wish that is true.
