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Why did god give mankind faulty love genes?
September 20, 2013 at 6:30 pm
If you were god and you were giving your special creation animal (man) the innate desires he needs, why would you give him more desire to please a busty young woman than his creator god? Why would he forget to give Adam a huge dose of dopamine when he pleases god and searing pain when he sins? He would still have "free will" to take the pain or not, and It's not like it's not his ultimate punishment anyway. Furthermore, christians claim that they are happiest when walking in the lords footsteps and saddest when sining, so why do they have such paltry levels? God would get a whole lot more faithful followers by quintupling that level of brain chemical reward.
Secondly, if wants us to love him as he loves us, does that mean we can threaten him too? Can I get away with cutting the tip of his penis off if he had that done to me?
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RE: Why did god give mankind faulty love genes?
September 20, 2013 at 6:57 pm
When i bother playing 'What if', I typically assume Yahweh is a god trapped in Buddhist Samsara. Essentially, subject to karma. As a god, he used his enhanced powers to create, but due to his own defilements, did a piss poor job in the execution. Unable to see his own shortcomings, and karmically bound to the messes done in his egotistical name, he has since passed on to another realm...and likely a hell one at that. It neatly explains his disappearance anymore, yes?
Crap. Not really a direct answer here, but i thought it a neat, if silly, alternative response to share.
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RE: Why did god give mankind faulty love genes?
September 20, 2013 at 7:22 pm
(September 20, 2013 at 6:30 pm)Brakeman Wrote: If you were god and you were giving your special creation animal (man) the innate desires he needs, why would you give him more desire to please a busty young woman than his creator god? Why would he forget to give Adam a huge dose of dopamine when he pleases god and searing pain when he sins? He would still have "free will" to take the pain or not, and It's not like it's not his ultimate punishment anyway. Furthermore, christians claim that they are happiest when walking in the lords footsteps and saddest when sining, so why do they have such paltry levels? God would get a whole lot more faithful followers by quintupling that level of brain chemical reward.
Secondly, if wants us to love him as he loves us, does that mean we can threaten him too? Can I get away with cutting the tip of his penis off if he had that done to me?
Something that comes up in the Bible again and again, as well as Christian history, is the idea that if something good happens, it must be because of God, and when something bad happens, it must be because of man. Have faith in yourself, I say. Pat yourself on the back when something goes right, and take it with a grain of salt when shit happens. It just makes more sense.
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RE: Why did god give mankind faulty love genes?
September 20, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Oh, don't worry about me, I'm a gnostic atheist. I know stupid bullshit when I see it. I prefer to think of myself as a blasphemist. I am only asking to try to understand the theistic mindset of apologists.
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RE: Why did god give mankind faulty love genes?
September 20, 2013 at 10:09 pm
I, too, wonder why God would make mankind specifically and deliberately so that we would, of our own accord, act in all the ways God hates. Christians trot out 'free will' and claim that we make the deliberate choice to not act like God wants, but no human behavior occurs in a vacuum. No Christian would argue that our free will is complete, its range is quite limited. It would violate that brand of 'free will' to force us to love God, but why couldn't God have made it so that loving God was something we'd want to do without any urging? Why would God make it so that we enjoy sex, the one activity God hates and regulates more than any other, as a completely primal urge, but make it precisely the opposite for doing what he wants us to do? And then, he blames us for this.
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