(November 17, 2017 at 2:08 pm)alpha male Wrote:(November 17, 2017 at 2:06 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I agree. By way of your god we aren't autonomous, which is one reason (of many) why I don't subscribe to any of the religious narratives. I mean, did I misrepresent your god in some way? Is my description not accurate?
Point is that if our every thought was in effect prewritten by god, we don't exist in any meaningful sense. We're just characters in a complex novel.
One of the many reason we don't buy into it.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam