RE: Do you wish God was real?
June 25, 2015 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2015 at 11:44 am by Whateverist.)
When I was a youngster I did believe, but in something pretty unorthodox. I liked the idea that there was this something more whose judgement regarding what is best was more completely evolved who I would be able to hang with after death. It gives one a greater arc of concern knowing one would be witness to how all things play out. When I first realized that there was no such being as God and no afterlife either, I was disappointed. But the sense of egalitarian mutual interdependence I feel with everyone else is a pretty good thing too.
Do I wish there was a god now? No more than I still wish there was a real Santa Clause. Benevolent, magical beings would be fun. There are also any number of fictitious characters from novels I wouldn't mind getting to know better. So any desire that the biblical God be real would be this sort of thing. But I have to say, I would have much more ambivalence toward the biblical god existing since it seems to wish to maintain a non-peer relationship with us. God of the bible infantilizes human beings.
Do I wish there was a god now? No more than I still wish there was a real Santa Clause. Benevolent, magical beings would be fun. There are also any number of fictitious characters from novels I wouldn't mind getting to know better. So any desire that the biblical God be real would be this sort of thing. But I have to say, I would have much more ambivalence toward the biblical god existing since it seems to wish to maintain a non-peer relationship with us. God of the bible infantilizes human beings.