Why I'm Still a Christian

[The Reality Salesman01]

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Well, it's kind of in the job description: Omniscent means all knowing, so that being should by definition know it all.

Your exactly right. So since we're not omniscient, we should not try to tell him what to do.

And you're right, menkind has influenced the world more than any other being. Mother Earth will shrug us off one day for what we have done. And we're just as important as the universe allows us to be. The next Dynosaur killer might just show us our real importance.

So you're contention is that we are no more important than a meteor. And I know where you're coming from. If we are purely natural beings, then you're right.

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and if he made everything for us, what's with the 4.5 billion year hiatus between making everything and then coming back to demand that he receives the credit for it? Was he just mad after he watched us evolve into early societies of people who didn't recognize his signature on all of his work? It seems like he waited a really long time to see how us human-things turned out only to see that we would ultimately start making up our own explanations for the things that he thought would be self-evident! Son of a Mary! These things don't work right! I waited 4.5 billion years for this?! Now I gotta send myself down so that they can kill me in order to forgive them for my fuck up...yeah, that'll do it!

(Enter GC with an attempt to rationalize all of that)

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Why do you think he made the whole universe only for us? Who knows what exists throughout the universe? We have no idea of what has been going on out there for those billions of years.

I don't think "he" made anything. My intention was to point out the absurdity of the common Christian view with a satirical post. But, it appears I've missed my mark. I do agree with you about this place not being created with us in mind at the center of it all. This is a pretty inhospitable universe for the most part and it's been kicking our ass for the short time we've been wandering around here. That's good you don't think that way. Though, it's puzzling to me that you don't recignize the crippling implications this idea has on your beliefs. How exactly do you square this up with the bible?
The bible is the source of your belief, right? I'm sorry if you're not a follower of Christ, I just had it in my head that you were for some reason.