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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 11:18 pm
I wont worship any figure, anything that's created such a broken world is a flawed engineer to begin with. Primarily any deity that demands to be worshiped is not worth worshiping.
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 11:21 pm
A god tells me he loves me so much that I should worship him to save me from the punishment he set up in the first place, which is akin to pissing on me and telling me it's raining.
I fail to see what part of that is worthy of worship.
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 11:25 pm
I'd acknowledge his existence. But worship? No. He's too much of a tyrannical maniac to be worth my worship.
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 11:44 pm
There's a million what-if questions like this...
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 8, 2014 at 11:51 pm
(January 8, 2014 at 7:32 pm)Sinnersburninhell100 Wrote: Would the atheist worship Yahweh if his existence was proven with science. Theist can input too, but I want to see what the atheist has to say.
No.
I would believe but I wouldn't worship.
Reason: if the Christian god was proven to exist then that would mean that the events of the OT actually occurred and there's nothing that could get me to worship the evil god of the OT.
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 9, 2014 at 12:05 am
No.
He would have a lot of explaining to do.
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 9, 2014 at 1:34 am
I see no reason to think of myself as a sinner. God never came to me and told me any rules. All I've seen are rules obviously invented by a bunch of ignorant, old, sexually-repressed men who claim to speak in God's name.
If God wants me to behave a certain way, he's welcome to contact me directly about it.
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RE: Would atheist worship The biblical God if his existence was proven?
January 9, 2014 at 1:35 am
(January 9, 2014 at 12:05 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: No.
He would have a lot of explaining to do.
Absolutely. As I've said so often before, I seriously wish there was a god, because I would take extreme pleasure in kicking its arse straight to the hell it delights in inflicting upon others. Such a being as described deserves our condemnation, not our respect, and most certainly not worship. Any human who thought and acted even a fraction of a percent the way Yahweh is supposed to have done would be locked away, or otherwise done away with, as a sociopathic threat to humanity.
What's even more perverse is that there exist people who look at the supposed behaviour of this character and proclaim it good. No wonder religion has been called the natural umbrella of the psychopath.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'