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Poll: Is there any aspect/type of god you as an atheist would be happy to discover existed?
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The biblical god in all his tyrannical, OT bad-assedness.
6.67%
1 6.67%
Just the loving hippy of the NT.
0%
0 0%
One that is concerned with human conduct and hands out eternal bliss or torture in a life-exit interview.
6.67%
1 6.67%
One that listens to 'prayers' or reads your mind and chooses life events with your development in mind; the 'world' for this sort of god is a kind of theater with no independent or necessary existence.
0%
0 0%
An all-powerful one that created everything from nothing just the way it is on purpose but has covered his tracks to make natural causes more plausible.
6.67%
1 6.67%
Not all-powerful, one possessed of some creative powers but not limitless, creating some forms but all from pre-existing substrata, not from 'nothing'.
26.67%
4 26.67%
One that is drastically older (approaching eternality?) and has seen it all but relates to you-as-consciousness as a kind of benevolent big brother and values your companionship without judgements or need for your worship.
53.33%
8 53.33%
Total 15 vote(s) 100%
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I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god.
Quote:Not unless I were an old testament literalist. We look to Jesus when trying to imagine how God is like. His examples, His teachings... dying for us, etc.

So just ignore the awful stuff and say "well that was the OT so.... or" well don't take it literally " . As for jesus he's not much better . And no being willing to go through a long weekend of pain to pay for a stupid rule is hardly an example . And nothing he taught was unique . I could think of a hundred mere humans who were more impressive and of greater good then Jesus . And they didn't do there good via magic god powers .And they didn't get brought back to life they stayed dead .

Gods don't impress me . Men do . The Universe does . But not gods . Even if a god made universe I would regard it as an insult to the universe . Even if a God created men then I say it's an insult to men . A universe forge by physics that's impressive .A universe forge by magic is just boring .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: I'd like to ask my fellow atheists if they would be happy to learn there was a god. - by Amarok - August 29, 2017 at 9:07 am

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