This morning I am trying to sleep. My cat is making a bunch of noise.
I open my eyes to look at what she is doing and it appears she has discovered something that crawled in here, possibly a lizard.
I ignore that she is causing harm to another living thing, because it is in her cat nature to hunt. I do not try to stop her from doing what she is doing.
As I close my eyes to lay back down to go back to sleep, it occurs to me that in the above scenario what if I am god and my cat is a human harming another human?
Perhaps god does not intervene to stop human on human violence because he simply does not care about what is happening with us, perhaps god views it as our nature as human beings to act as we do and finds it pointless to intervene in any way. He is nothing more than a sometimes spectator of the lives far removed from his own nature, much in the way a typical human is uninterested in the lives of ants.
If god is real, which I still doubt, this is a more credible understanding of god's unknowable nature than that of the theistic point of view.
I open my eyes to look at what she is doing and it appears she has discovered something that crawled in here, possibly a lizard.
I ignore that she is causing harm to another living thing, because it is in her cat nature to hunt. I do not try to stop her from doing what she is doing.
As I close my eyes to lay back down to go back to sleep, it occurs to me that in the above scenario what if I am god and my cat is a human harming another human?
Perhaps god does not intervene to stop human on human violence because he simply does not care about what is happening with us, perhaps god views it as our nature as human beings to act as we do and finds it pointless to intervene in any way. He is nothing more than a sometimes spectator of the lives far removed from his own nature, much in the way a typical human is uninterested in the lives of ants.
If god is real, which I still doubt, this is a more credible understanding of god's unknowable nature than that of the theistic point of view.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter
