RE: Do you wish God was real?
July 7, 2015 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm by Excited Penguin.)
Cathy, I'm saying NO, and asking you a similar question: would you like for me to know your every thought, be responsible for everything you're doing, be capable to make you do whatever I want, be responsible for your being mortal and suffering, making you sick and commanding you to be well making you believe in me even though there's no reason to do so, having you be my unquestioning slave, overall, and for you to worship me under the threat of the most vile and crude torture imaginable? If so, then please explain to me how this kind of slave mentality works. If not, then why and please refer your answer to the god you believe in.
Let me simplify my answer. No, I wouldn't like to live in an orwellian universe, a kind of celestial North Korea, where every single aspect of my life is so kafkaesque as to either break me or kill me outright*. Would you? And if so, why do you then and if not, then how come you do?
*Talking about one's spirit.
You can dress it up however you want. If you like to call it a loving god, then it's still a kind of love that is forced upon you and not one you're really free to choose - given the consequences if you don't.
[the phrases written in bold are Christopher Hitchens quotes].
Let me simplify my answer. No, I wouldn't like to live in an orwellian universe, a kind of celestial North Korea, where every single aspect of my life is so kafkaesque as to either break me or kill me outright*. Would you? And if so, why do you then and if not, then how come you do?
*Talking about one's spirit.
You can dress it up however you want. If you like to call it a loving god, then it's still a kind of love that is forced upon you and not one you're really free to choose - given the consequences if you don't.
[the phrases written in bold are Christopher Hitchens quotes].
