(July 17, 2010 at 2:52 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: What puzzles me about the religious faith systems I've encountered is the relative ease with which the step is made from existence of a god to submission and worship of that god. It seems as if existence itself compels one to worship. As if power equals moral truth. Surely that is a non sequitur, it does not follow from existence of a supernatural entity that it is therefore a good thing to worship that entiity. The trust of power displayed by the religious towards their god is contrasted by the opposite kind of reasoning on every other terrain of human endeavour in modern thinking. In general power is widely distrusted, notoriously known to corrrupt and a reason to demand more control. Not so with theism. For god the bar is lowered to an absurd level and many believers think that "god moves in mysterious ways" is an answer to questions that critically examen the myth of a benevolent god in the light of real life experiences of suffering.
Let's hear your opinion about this. Should gods be excused from moral assessment?
If it turned out there was a god, he'd have a lot of explaining to do.
But my reaction would, I think be, 'thats interesting' and get on with my day as usual.
The compulsion to worship has always been a mystery to me.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
