(January 7, 2015 at 3:15 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(January 7, 2015 at 1:48 pm)JuliaL Wrote: I think it is unreasonable to disparage the all powerful God of all creation as an egomaniac. If you can make it stick, it ain't bragging. Though it might be imaginary.
It's not the bragging that makes him an egomaniac, it's the incessant desire for recognition.
Cool, you made existence. Kudos. Why do I need to keep congratulating you for it? Or live my life according to your whims when you created my whims? And why would you punish me for it when it gets old hat and I want to do other things?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not sticking up for the (imaginary) guy.
But according to the definition:
egomaniac:
(noun)
psychologically abnormal egotism.
As one of a kind, God has to be exactly at the median and average for his population. He can't really be abnormal, he's the only one by which normal could be determined.
Egoist? Oh Yea! Absolutely.
Egomaniac? No.
OTOH I don't think he could be either egoist or egomaniac if he wasn't there. I think all characteristics of the non-existant are undefined.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
