RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
June 30, 2015 at 3:45 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 3:46 am by Wyrd of Gawd.)
(June 30, 2015 at 1:12 am)pool Wrote:Just because there's a herd of smarty-pants space aliens whizzing around the stars it doesn't make them "gods". If a smart guy from today went back in time he could impress the heck out of the grubby goat ropers with his bag of tricks. But he would still be a man and not a real "god" even if the goat ropers called him a "god" and worshipped him.(June 30, 2015 at 12:54 am)Aristocatt Wrote: Right, I understand what superior means. We are discussing whether a far superior being is synonymous with supernatural being.
In that case,
A superior being would have far superior understanding of the universe and hence have technological advancements than humans which can categorize them as Supernatural beings as long as we do not have an understanding of or haven't yet reached an understanding of the universe with science that is on par with their science.
Note that it is according to me that a Superior being should have Superior knowledge.
A Bodybuilder may not agree with me,according to him the Superior being would have to have Superior muscles xD.
Then the Superior being would have to be A being with Superior knowledge and Superior muscles.
But as long as knowledge is valued among humans a superior being to be classified as superior would have to have Superior knowledge.
For our purposes we can say that a real "god" could create the entire universe all by himself. A herd of smarty-pants space aliens can't do that even if they had a full bag of tricks.
Logic says that the various renditions of the "God" character in the Bible was just a series of men who ruled the goat-ropers in ancient times. He died off when man grew more than 10 brain cells and became aware of reality.
We know that the biblical "God" character isn't a real "god" because reality disproves the biblical fairy tale. According to the Bible God only cares about a small piece of dirt on a small planet in a universe with trillions of planets and he only cares about a thimble full of people in the entire human race. So when the world ends he will gather that thimble full of special people in a golden cube on a waterless planet and spend eternity with them there. That pretty much excludes all other life forms in the entire universe except for a gaggle of weird creatures he likes to surround himself with.
That basic story might have made sense when the goat ropers thought that stars would fall to the Earth. Today intelligent people know better.
If a person needs to believe in a deity he should at least create one that fits into the 21st Century knowledge base instead of relying upon the ones ignorant goat ropers created thousands of years ago. Those "gods" are obsolete and need to be buried and forgotten.