(April 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Passive Atheist Wrote: As a thought experiment suppose, just for the moment that it was proven that the Christ andBiblical God did, in fact, exist.
How would it affect your atheism? How would you reconcile yourself to embracing the need to worship him,to denying your atheism?
Would you study the Bible?
I would be in deep shit, my belief is so ingrained I don't think I'd be able to make the change.
Robert
Proof of the Christian god would certainly cause me to cease to be an atheist because it would cause me to believe in a god.
However, I've read the Bible a number of times, and I'm not at all sure it would cause me to worship such a god. The Christian god is a pretty despicable character. If he were a person, we'd put him right up there with Hitler, Stalin, etc. The need to be worshiped is pretty despicable too when it comes right down to it.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.