(May 23, 2015 at 2:51 pm)robvalue Wrote: Yes, I've tried talking to God. I've tried every method I could possibly think of. Absolutely nothing happened. From my point of view, he is doing everything possible to hide from me and to make it look like all religions are baseless mythical stories. If he's trying to persuade me any of them are true, and particularly Christianity, he couldn't be doing a worse job of it. I don't need to claim they are false, any more than I need to claim the tooth fairy isn't real. But until such time as God decides to give me some evidence, then there's not much I can do. From your point of view, the best I could do is pretend to believe. That really would be a waste of time all round. And considering the God on show, even if I did believe he was real, the last thing I'd do is worship him.
Your post reminds me of one by Pyrrho or Poca-something earlier in this thread in which it was suggested that God should reveal himself to everyone and then start consulting for us whenever we have questions, etc.
The late Christopher Hitchens once said in a debate with Catholic convert Tony Blair that even if God existed, he would not worship him because such a being would, in his mind, differ little from an earthly dictator.
So, on the one hand, atheists claim that God's silence is proof that He doesn't exist. But on the other hand, they can state that they would reject Him even if He did reveal Himself because they chaffe under such authority.
This is not an intellectual rejection; this is volitional. People refuse to acknowledge God because they do not WANT to...the implications are too significant with regard to the freedom they want to live as they please.
Whatever God does will be used against him by those who reject Him.
