Atheism and Purpose

[Edward the Theist]

Presumably then you do feel that you have a purpose. A purpose pre-destined by this God character. If so then I have to ask what that purpose is and to what end?

Yes, I do. But you have to understand, I have a very different notion of God than most theists have. God is not comprehensible, not anthropomorphically anyway. When I see God, I see the construct my psychology has made, and it enables me to channel the power of...whatever it is.

Because to call it God is incorrect. It's something greater than God. It's what created God, my God, in that it created me, and then I created God. I have to, it's the only way I can understand "it".

I say all that to make this point: my purpose is to write down what I think I know about this--a theory of cosmology, if you will. I understand it philosophically. I understand it religiously, I just don't have it scientifically, yet. But I am working on it mathematically every day.

It may all come to nothing. But it's what I feel obsessed with.

You said: "This I think is the fundamental difference between you and I. You look at the Cosmos and say "why", whereas I look at the Cosmos and say "how"! Correct me if I'm wrong."

I think you are right on that. I think that is true.