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Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm
As a thought experiment suppose, just for the moment that it was proven that the Christ and ![[Image: 535.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=ak.webfetti.com%2Fassets%2F3dani%2F1%2F535.gif) Biblical God did, in fact, exist.
How would it affect your atheism? How would you reconcile yourself to embracing the need to worship him,  to denying your atheism? 
Would you study the Bible?
I would be in deep shit, my belief is so ingrained I don't think I'd be able to make the change.
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 6:46 pm
I wouldn't be an atheist anymore. I'd probably be a maltheist. He may exist, but if the bible is an accurate representation of who he is, I wouldn't want anything to do with him.
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 6:46 pm
(April 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Passive Atheist Wrote: As a thought experiment suppose, just for the moment that it was proven that the Christ and Biblical God did, in fact, exist.
How would it affect your atheism? How would you reconcile yourself to embracing the need to worship him, to denying your atheism?
Would you study the Bible?
I would be in deep shit, my belief is so ingrained I don't think I'd be able to make the change.
Robert
Proof of the Christian god would certainly cause me to cease to be an atheist because it would cause me to believe in a god.
However, I've read the Bible a number of times, and I'm not at all sure it would cause me to worship such a god. The Christian god is a pretty despicable character. If he were a person, we'd put him right up there with Hitler, Stalin, etc. The need to be worshiped is pretty despicable too when it comes right down to it.
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 6:48 pm
If the christian god could be proven to exist, then I would believe that he exists. That's it.
I wouldn't worship him- he doesn't need it and we both have better things to do with our time- nor would I take his moral commandments as factually moral, where they conflict with my own understanding of morality, just because god says so; he would need to provide more justification for his commandments than just fiat assertion, regardless of the authority he demands.
Basically, "god exists," does not entail that all the claims he makes are automatically true, and if he can't justify those with evidence, then I'm not going to believe them just because god said them.
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 7:08 pm
We could ask God to explain where he has been all these years and why he hasn't kept his promises.
We could ask God to fix the many contradictions and lies in the Bible.
We could ask God to deal with all the money-grubbing, decietful sociopaths that inhabit church offices.
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 7:10 pm
I'd probably go through the five stages of grief, and after I reached acceptance, I'd ask Satan for wicked bass-playing skills!
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 7:12 pm
God would have some serious explaining to do.
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 7:14 pm
Trust me, xtians definitely don't want me on their team; any more than I would want to be there myself. Their pet god would have a shitload of explaining to do and I would be among those holding it accountable to every single thing.
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April 19, 2015 at 7:16 pm
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RE: Suppose God (christian) was proved to exist (imperically)?
April 19, 2015 at 7:53 pm
I'm with Chad on this one....the actual existence of the character - as a real being..... is just about the only thing that could make that character even more deplorable than it already is.
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