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Poll: Would you take it up the ass from God just to get into heaven?
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Yes, i want in on an eternal afterlife of bliss
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No, give me that fire and brimstone baby. Better take it in the ass from the devil!
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14 73.68%
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Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
#61
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
(November 23, 2010 at 3:07 am)tackattack Wrote: 1-I would say he's homicidal, but where you see God acting to kill people I see nature and people killing people.

I would agree that he would be a homicidal maniac. But what does the second part of your response have to do with anything? It was your deity who directly killed people when he supposedly flooded the planet. It was also your deity who directly killed the first born child of everyone in town when the Pharoah refused to free the Hebrews. These were not acts of "nature".

Quote:2-poor analogy, the problem with it is that he does give answers to those who listen, and he does heal those who show faith, not beg

No, it's a perfect analogy. Many of the faithful pray for their sick children to be cured. And many of these children die. No cure. No response. No reason is ever given. And the nonsensical "he does give answers to those who listen" is nothing but a meaningless platitude. If your deity truly exists he is a lousy communicator.

Quote:3-It would definately make me question and distrust , but I would stil love him, he's my father.

Then why don't you question and distrust "God"?

Quote:4- See 4 from the above quote

I'm not sure what you're referring to here.



Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.

God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
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#62
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
(November 23, 2010 at 11:56 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote:


1-Then you missed my point I said God and Jesus are not the same entities, and there was a sacrifice. The fact that he knew about it does not limit his free actions as expressed by his doubt in the Garden nor does it lessen his sacrifice.
2-And I don’t deny human love is not some mystical immaterial tangible other than a reaction to stimuli interpreted by the Brain. My point was the stimuli is being interpreted by our mental physical processes doesn’t force the fact that we have to see the stimuli. You said that every sense of love we have is backed by our emotions and which is based out of our physical cognitive processes, which I don’t deny. However you then go on to assume that only physical/material inputs are required for a response, which isn’t the case. You can “feel” that someone loves you though you’re miles away and it can “warm your heart”. It doesn’t require any more than an abstract thought or idea to change your emotional state. That being said as long as the input event is realistically evaluated, it’s a vaid emotion response from reality.
3-Well you’re entitled to believe whatever you like, I’m not here to convert or convince you. I agree that religions are cultural phenomenon, but they’re not about evidence. Religion exists because people question and don’t understand their origins, purpose and predicaments. It’s either a methodology to explain a real phenomenon, a social control, or personal rationalization or some mix of them all.
4-My intent wasn’t to avoid anything. I don’t know God’s plan, but I see that we’re all here to learn grow and develop into something better. I don’t see us as marooned, just limited by our understanding. If our purpose is to learn and grow, what a vast area of expansion God’s given us to grow into hunh Tongue
5-I assure you I don’t have the time nor energies to spend spinning, nor is that a theologians purpose. Many scriptures talk about taking the “letter of the Law” further to intention. The Law was also a tool for condemnation which is opposed to Jesus’ teachings of God’s Grace.
6-You’re correct I missed it in my rush I apologize. You stated :
“we can't both have freewill and there be a god axiomatically worthy of worship, becuase we have to yield our freewill to perform the worship. Unless you are to argue that freewill is active only to the point at which you have decided to come to a god, after that you have to give up freewill. Thus you would argue that we don't have freewill at least in matters of moral autonomy.”
I don’t see a contradiction you don’t have to give up your free will to worship God, it’s an act of free will to worship God or to do your own thing. Perhaps you could rephrase because I don’t see a contradiction between free will and worship.

(November 23, 2010 at 3:14 pm)Thor Wrote:

1- The second sentence was because you seem to be under the impression that I’m a literalist and attribute lightning to the finger of God. As for the rest I’m not aware of any worldwide flood ever happening. Correct those weren’t acts of nature they here parable.
2- And tons of children die of parental neglect without the God told me excuse. God isn’t an excuse not to think and reason, but I agree that in practice it happens less frequently than it should. As for the rest communication is a 2 way street.
3- I do question and distrust my faith in God, quite frequently.
4- I was referring to your comments about the things that exist that are in opposition to life and referred you to my answer 4 from the above quote.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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#63
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
(November 24, 2010 at 7:39 am)tackattack Wrote: "You’re correct"
Atheological spin Wink Shades

I guess we just won't agree then. For me the material world is all there is, for you it isn't. I feel you have a higher burden of proof than I do and you may accept that. I haven't heard anything remotely convincing though.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
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#64
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
Hell yes! IF I believed in a dead cunt like YHWH,I'd be terrified of him. I'd do whatever the fuck he told me too. I'm old, not stupid.Thinking
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#65
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
and lots of theists would be right there with you in that fear, however, I don't believe fear was on my list and is contrary to Christian theology (fear where it connotes terror as opposed to healthy respect).
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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#66
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
If god were to suddenly be proved to exist somehow, I think my initial reaction would be surprise, then interest, then I'd get on with my day.

If, in the extremely unlikely case that, there WAS a god then it would just be a fact like mountains are tall and water is wet.

Would not feel the need to worship.




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#67
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
If there was a god (One big mega super fucking IF) I'd be very surprised. Since it is an extremely, EXTREMELY [/color]EXTREMELY HIGH IMPROBABILITY! The fact that there is no credibility and no likely hood, it would shock the fuck out of me.
Though I would continue to live a very secular life. Still wouldn't go to church or anything. I'd carry on living my life the way I have been.Big Grin
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#68
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
I'm hopping in late here Smile

Did we define what god we're talking about here? If it was the god of the bible I'd seek a way to defend myself and my friends/family from his insanity, whatever it takes.

If it was just a deistic creator god I'd hope for the chance to have a drink with him sometime, I'd like to meet the god that started everything off then just observed. I could learn a lot.

Either way, there would still be no prayer or worship, my life would either carry on as normal or I would seek ways to kill the god to protect everyone from his insanity.
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#69
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
"Poll: Would you take it up the ass from God just to get into heaven?"

No... I'd take it up the ass from God just because it would probably be good sex. Getting into heaven? Bonus Tiny Tiger
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#70
RE: Thiests - Assuming God exists, why should we worship him?
I suppose I should have asked this from the beginning... does he have a Holy, Righteous Penis?

"Faith is about taking a comforting, childlike view of a disturbing and complicated world." ~ Edward Current

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