Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
The idea that is some super powerful entity created the universe 13.8 billion years ago, then waited about 9 billion years before creating our solar system, then waited another 4 billion years before creating humans, then waited until about a few thousand years ago to reveal himself. He did all of this, created a universe with billions and billions of galaxies, each containing billions and billions of stars, most of which we cannot see, all for the benefit of a species of carbon based organisms on a small planet orbiting a small to medium sized sun. And this species has only inhabited its planet for less than 1/100 of 1 percent of the life of the planet. And this super powerful being in this gigantic universe watches what people do and listens to their wishes and cares whether someone gets a job, or recovers from an illness or wins a football game. This idea is so ridiculous, so outlandish that it should be considered effectively impossible.
So that’s why people don’t believe in your mythological deity…. because it’s stupid.
A comment I agree with. It is not of interest to us. I copy it here for those uninterested in going to check John’s post.
John attempts to turn the comment on its head to argue the probabilities of our existing are close to nil but forgets the little detail that regardless of what possibilities/ probabilities say, we are. This is one fact you can’t assail. And our being, does not shine a light on the existence of a god.
John writes
This notwithstanding, what interested me most about this reply was the portrait of God presupposed in the description. The argument only really works if you presuppose that God does not conform to a concept of God, but to the realities of what it’s like to be a human being.
I hope he intends to tell us about his conception of god is.
He tells us the above portrayal of god is inaccurate. He says
These are no doubt interesting questions but they presuppose a rather anthropomorphic understanding of God.
But one must ask, isn’t a god who suffers, who dies, who hears prayers, loves and hates anthropomorphic? How else would one describe the god of the Abrahamic religions? Isn’t it anything but anthropomorphic?
The god of the bible, is said to have given man dominion over all things on land and in water. Essentially, to this god, man is at the apex of creation. John, by denying this should at least tell us which god he serves.
In Genesis god rested on the seventh day. I don’t know whether it was out of tiredness or lack of ideas. Whatever linguists want to take the rest to mean, it is there in the bible. So when John says
when one doesn’t have to rest
he at least should tell us why the author of that part of Genesis had god resting. And the claim that is metaphorical will not wash for everywhere, Christians justify resting on their chosen days of worship by referring to god’s rest.
While I don’t know what god is, I would be interested in knowing how John purports to know the mind of god. I would like to know how he knows
God can at any single time have before him with full attention every single piece of existence, as it were, as if it were the only thing that exists. In other words, there is nothing exceptional from God’s perspective in his ability to be interested in prayers, ponies, water-polo, and the Polish all at the same time—intimately and immediately.
this about god. The only perspective I can claim knowledge of is mine. I can from my own experience make inductive judgments on other humans, but how John can make such statements about god waits to be demonstrated.
I don’t know about you, but at the end when John writes
In fact, to construe God any other way, is, I proffer, to misunderstand what the concept of God is.
I am left unconvinced that he has shown his conception of god to be not anthropomorphic. What he has done is to increase the abilities of god infinitely but still, it is, as far as I can tell, a man with superpowers.
I don’t think John has answered to the critique raised in the comment above. Neither has he demonstrated how his god isn’t anthropomorphic.
It is humans claiming to know the mind of god that I have the biggest problems with. If he were real, how could humans possibly know his mind. He wouldn’t be a god then would he, or am I approaching this too simplistically. Duh. 🙂
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How would they know? That is the big question.
They can’t tell the mind of their cats, if they have any. So how does he even think he would know the mind of god
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I don’t even know the mind of my other half, though admittedly he does inhabit Planet Goldfish in one of his several manifestations. And the rest of the time, well who knows. I sometimes think he left his mind in Africa. At times, too, I do not know my own mind, not with any certainty. I certainly don’t know what’s piled up in my subconscious. How then could we track the contents of a mind that is purported to know everybody’s business, inside hearts and minds, and over so much territory? Heavens to Murgatroid!
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And then atheists are called arrogant!
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Pot s and kettles, Noel. Pots and kettles.
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Men’s minds are easy. Most of the time it’s sex, food or sports. So walk out naked with a pizza and beer and if he doesn’t react turn on the TV and sports…
Ok ok they aren’t quite that simple but I never meet a man yet who turned me away when I showed up naked with pizza and beer. It’s been meet with a smile and an invitation to come on in and has lead to some pretty awesome nights.. /lol
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Hahaha, Michelle, this really is fun.
I mean, we are more complex than this but we also understand what is important 😛
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Ok men aren’t simple but making them happy doesn’t have to be complicated..
There better said as to not make my freinds with a penis mad 🙂
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I don’t speak for all of them, but making us happy isn’t so hard. Give me a good book, talk less, food and beer. Sex is good all the time
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And a smile gals gotta smile. I find it makes men weak in the knees normally. Yeah nice smile, oh and tits yeah they like those too..
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I don’t want to incriminate myself, but I sure get disarmed by a smile. Tits distract my attention 😛 For yours eyes only
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I got baby blue eyes 🙂 Most guys like them I am told my “big blue eyes” are one of my best features. I thought it was my winning smile but oh well.. hehehe Good morning sunshine!
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I will tell you about your smile when we meet. Or if you see me melt, just know I have been won over
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Depends on what kind of pizza – no pineapples!
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meat, men seem to like meat pizza! And bacon because everything is better with bacon even me… /nod
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meat, then everything else. Meat
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Yeah just don’t sit in your mans lap when his team is in the superbowl. /rubs her toshie
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The lady in my life need not worry about that. I am not a sports fan
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yeah Cause I am kind of light at 117 pounds most guys can jump up and dump me on the floor.
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And we don’t want you breaking your bones. I think you should avoid such men, when you can
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Oh I am not very fragile, just not very heavy../lol
besides most men run from my past /smirk
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Strangely, I wouldn’t run from your past
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Naked babe, THEN everything else. Get your priorities right, pal. 😉
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Naked former doll house stripper. yup Thee Dollhouse from Motley Crew in Ft. Lauderdale.
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Yep. Now ya REALLY got me prayin’. I likes you! 🙂
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I have said to at least three different people, and got very little reaction, that someone could make a fortune if they would only invent a bacon-flavored vaginal spray. Women would clear the shelves of the product!
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That’s a good business plan you got there arch
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I showed up naked with pizza and beer once to a woman’s house and got arrested. Guess it would have helped had the woman and I actually known each other. Oh well, live and learn, eh?
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I don’t think any man would have me arrested. I’m told I’m cute and even at 31 you couldn’t guess by my tits. 🙂
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I think you should have called earleir
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I did, but no one was home so I came back.
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Turn up naked with pizza and beer and I really won’t be disappointed if you forget the pizza and beer.
Does this make me sound too easy?
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Hahaha yeah but it’s ok. I am told I’m cute anyway.
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You are in good company, Tish. Pascal came to similar conclusions.
The problem is not god’s having a field of consciousness, it’s in the requirements of having a perspective.
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The time scales are always a good argument for the silliness of a personal god, but I think the immense, unfathomable scale of the universe is even better. It renders the personal god concept so utterly absurd that one cannot even engage the subject seriously. What it does do, though, is bring Scott Adam’s God Debris god closer to the warmth of reasonableness.
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On a good day, one could argue for Scott Adam’s god. A personal god who hears prayers in this immense universe would be hard to swallow
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Impossible to swallow
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So, to this brilliant fellow, god isn’t anthropomorphic, eh? He refers to it as him, then says it isn’t anthropomorphic. Idjit. Plain and simple. This fellow is an idjit. I’ve never heard any description of a god or gods that wasn’t anthropomorphic. Humans create gods, so gods are like us. Though, we at least actually exist.
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Humans 1 god 0.
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The issue I think is rather about language than anything else. Our language is informed by the world around us, so it becomes natural to speak of things in ways that are natural to us. The very fact that animals are gendered gives us a predilection to speak about God in a gendered way—whether or not God is in fact gendered. There is also no possible way to speak about things outside of spatio-temporal frame. The reason you usually hear anthropomorphic descriptions of God is because it’s just unpleasant to talk about God as mathematical points and equations and the like. Understanding him would be difficult. Not to mention it becomes impossible to appreciate the “personality” of God when abstract metaphysics and numbers are solely used to discuss God.
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John, I almost want to agree with you about the limits of language. I disagree however that this is why we anthropomize gods. We anthropomize gods because we create them in our image
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I created my god in the image of a giant, golden boot. I guess I bootthropomorphized it. 🙂
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Hahaha. You sure did that and we are the last and final prophets
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“God” doesn’t exist.
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I give you 30 minutes with me I’ll have you screaming his name in pleasure. /smirk
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Ya kinda got me doing that by “stimulatin” my imagination right now. 🙂 I’m sure in person, you’re quite the prayer inducer. 😀
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I went naked for naked jihad in my post the culture of rape. https://aghostdancer.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/582/
/smirk I don’t have issues with nudity though many Christians tell me it’s bad and all Muslims tell me the same.
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I have no problem with nudity.
Most of the things that matter are done in the nude anyway- like being born or making babies 😛
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Or practicing making babies. 🙂
More fun to practice than to succeed.
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Agree 200%
More fun in practice
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I find scratching my arse is done better when I’m nude. Just easier to get all the “itchy” parts that way.
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True
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Hmmm never really scratch that… /ponder
Don’t matter 2 hours 15 minutes until bikini and surfing so who cares /nod
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I’m wearing my bikini now. Looks great on me, but the damn things tends to ride up on me when I bend over. Guess one can’t have everything.
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Your bikini must be specially made for you, I guess
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It’s made of lightening resistant material.
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Clever you
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I think it’s great, as are you. I usually find those who have the biggest issues with nudity are those who look bad nude.
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Hahaha
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Will this be classified under blasphemy or calling the lord’s name in vain?
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Only if you want to believe he exists first. otherwise my god wouldn’t care he welcomes all prayer even sex because its natural.
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You know where I stand on gods.
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Actually, the Yahwist (J) Source (of the Torah), a group of priests writing in the Southern Kingdom of Judea, in Jerusalem, about 950 BCE, who wrote Gen 1 – 4 and others, the first to write of a god, conceived of an anthropic god who popped down to earth often for walks “in the cool of the day” – what kind of god cares about temperatures? He personally sewed clothing for the First Family, and become such a common visitor that Cain felt familiar with him to dare to retort, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
It was nearly a half-millennium later that the Priestly (P) Source, a group of Aaronid priests in captivity in Babylon, decided that all of Israel’s troubles were caused, not by actions of their own making regarding their relationships with their more powerful neighbors, but rather because they had disrespected their god, so having had several hundred years of being led by kings, created a more royal god, who sat regally on his throne all day while his angels performed his errands for him, like the servants of a king, and so, wrote Gen 1, intending that it replace entirely Gen 2. Unfortunately they neglected to leave instructions regarding their intentions, and so a hundred + years later, those who redacted the four sources into a combined Torah, simply included both stories, hence two different personalities in the same god.
PS – tell John we could certainly use him over on Nate’s site – Mike is back!
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John doesn’t have a comment feature on his blog. I am not feeling like sending him email either.
I think, the best evidence for evolution is how the conception of god has changed over time
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AC/DC “Who made who…” /smirk
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I am still thinking
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C/C met A/D; then C left C and A left D; then the first C hooked up with A and the second C hooked up with D. Now we have A/C and D/C, see?
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I like the band name because they swinge both ways like I do. My wife is not really into men so much but I like em just fine. Like her better but men can be cool.
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They’re an amazing band.
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being born deaf I loved heavy music I could feel their music. I now hear but tend to still “listen” deaf. More fun to not care and just boogie down.
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I was friends with a gal who wasn’t born deaf, but lost her hearing later in life. She really enjoyed the metal bands too. Like you, she said she enjoyed just feeling the music vibrate through her. I’m fairly efficient in ASL. Haven’t used it in quite awhile as I’ve fallen out of touch with my friend, but I was fairly fluent in it.
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Nice, I read lips well, have spoken about 900 words before my CI. I now hear with the CI and am pretty fluent with speech and can say most anything, though I still rely heavy on reading lips I now can identify about 3,000 words by sound. So communication is easier but I find myself signing when I speak. As does my wife and partner for 16 years and life long friend sign when she speaks.
It’s fun to sit in a restaurant and sign without a word. People can’t understand what you are saying.
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I bet. My friend got a CI a few years ago. Last time I saw her, she said she was able to speak to folks on the phone with it. I find that pretty amazing. Technology. Wow. Much better than invisible gods and hocus pocus, I say.
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Oh I have faith you can read it on my blog a few days ago posted called Lakota faith and circles.
I am not Christian now does the god I believe in need anything from me. And he doesn’t send people to hell (even people who don’t believe) there is no lake of fire. A truly good god would never send people to hell.
We believe if we lived well we enter “heaven” for lack of a better term and if not our energy is recycled and we are given another chance. How is that for love? 🙂
But i am a heathen to Christians. /lol that always makes me laugh.
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Yours is a faith then that is a good thing. It emphasizes humanity, and human goodness as it connects to the world around us. Thus, you’re a heathen to christians and, most likely, Muslims as well because you don’t believe as they do. We are here, and that’s what matters. All of us matter. Not just those who believe in some deity who’ll burn us in fire for not kissing his ass. That kind of thinking, and those who insist on pushing that thinking onto me, are the ones I dislike with a hot anger. $Amen$
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Agreed. All creation is one. If God created us all then he loves us all. 🙂 like I said I am a heathen but that’s OK with me.
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“Blessed be the heathens cause they’re nice.” Matthew 45:89
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Here I thought that was katness Everdeen who said that. Book 2, chapter 5, page 4 “Blessed are the heathens for they are truth and nice”
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Is that really in that book? Cool. I like those movies but haven’t read the books. I’m madly in love with Jennifer Lawrence, too, though she refuses to return my calls. Maybe I’ll show up naked with pizza and beer on her door step. 🙂
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She has a hubby and not sure it works the same on ladies. I mean I’d think it’s cool if the pizza boy or girl showed up naked..not sure JLaw would though. And her hubby probably wouldn’t like that you an atheist are better hung. What kind of god would do that to the poor guy, give him a hot ass wife and little bitty man parts…
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I’ll have to zap him with my lightening bolt and sweep Jennifer away. 🙂
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Sweet. I could distract him and you could taz him and then we can kid nap JLaw good plan
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“For he with the lightening and the beautiful friends shall inherit the Jlaw.” Luke, 45:23
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Yeah I like your religion better
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“My spirit. This is a new thought. I’m not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I’m a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It’s not as if I’m never friendly. Okay, maybe I don’t go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.” – Katniss Everdeen
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Katniss is a great character. Strong. Smart. And beautiful.
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I think you should be given a contract to rewrite the bible.
It would be a comic book when you are done with it
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Right now it’s a horror novel. I’m sure I could at least make its central character a bit more compassionate, and I think Jeebus would look great dressed as Spiderman. 🙂
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Maybe we should ask the Vatican to consider a rewrite of the bible
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Just don’t tell us you got arrested a second time
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I’ll keep that between me and my army of attorneys. 🙂
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That is well
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Well said
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I like heathens of whatever stripe
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By “listen deaf”, do you mean you turn down your cochlear (IIRC)?
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The battery is external to my head, by removing it I am fully deaf again. Batteries last about 10-14 hours depending on use and some conditions. (Haven’t figured out all the conditions yet) But outside they die faster.
So I just take off the battery. Since I have an inner ear but no auditory nerve mine are hybrid CI tech “Nucleus 6” I take out the battery and the ear insert (hearing aid kind of).The battery attaches to a connection beneath my hair in my skull that powers the wires which replace my auditory nerve and the hearing aid like ear insert. (Not a doctor though so not sure what the proper names are.)
So for me it’s all in am I wearing the external pieces or not. 🙂
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One thing that can be said for these frakking dingbats is they appear to be running out of arguments, while the business of science marches inexorably on and every generation or so these dimwits are obliged to indulge in one or two major paradigm shifts. Eventually they will be nothing but quaint oddities.
One wonders where was this frakking personal god during the fun times the Church was almost the absolute authority.
Imagine what would have happened should you have opened your pie hole and said: ”Oh, Yahweh and I chat all the time, I don’t need the Pope or the church.”
Kindling matches, anyone?
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I think they ran out of arguments a long time ago. They have been trying to resurrect dead ones unsuccessfully.
This personal god was occupied elsewhere during the days of the stake
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I thought the dead ones resurrected themselves?
😉
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Not successfully, it seems
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I’m not sure adding Jesus or any God to steak will make it taste good. I like my steak with BBQ sauce not God sauce.
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Bbq sauce any day. Zombies, I think spoil parties
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Zombie ewwww
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Christian infant sauce is good on steak. 🙂
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Muslims drink Christian blood they say it brings them to heaven. I guess they aren’t counting on the 70 virgins being computer nerd boys who died in their moms basements. They didn’t count on the penis being attached…
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🙂
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or the boys being clueless on what to do with their little willies 🙂
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MAKAGUTU, I thank you for your treatment of my post.
Since you haven’t actually dealt with either my probability argument or efficiency argument I will not respond to either of those issues, which were I think more at the centre of the content of my post then the specific issues that you have raised.
However, the question of anthropomorphism and knowing the mind of God are two important issues, which I think you’ve rightly drawn attention to. Obviously one cannot say everything one can possibly say in a post, especially when the intention of the post is to point out certain things (rather than others).
You are quite right in saying that the bible is full of anthropomorphisms. God rested, God was angry, God heard, God is a “he,” etc. I take these not as literal descriptions of God, but as representing in the best way that humans can what God is. One will have to anthropomorphize God at some points. For instance, I refer to God as “He” since this is something Jesus himself (God’s Son, in the Christian tradition) refers to him as, i.e, “Father.” I am merely following the example. I don’t actually think that God has a penis or testosterone, etc., or a body for the matter. There is no way around some anthropomorphizing, but it is unnecessary to do so at every point. And even in the bible itself you get both anthropomorphic language as well as language that tries to distance itself from anthropomorphisms and the error in thinking that result. For instance, Jesus in the Gospel of John says that “God is spirit” (John 4:24). When it does occur and needs to occur I suspect it’s an attempt to personalize something that is very different from us, in the hopes that we can relate to it better. I think that ought to be understandable. The points I think I have indicated, however, are instances where anthropomorphism is not only unnecessary but detrimental to a proper understanding of God.
As for the mind of God issue. I don’t think I’ve claimed to know the mind of God in any absolute sense. (Your point is that I know all about it, which would be impossible, and obviously something I would not claim.) I think it would be fair to say, however, that have claimed to know *something* about it, which should not be thought of as unresonable. One of your commenters mentioned that he/she did not know the mind of his/her own partner. I don’t doubt this, but surely he/she knows something about it, namely in every instance where the partner speaks or gives him/her a “piece of his/her mind.” That something of God’s mind is knowable can I think be deduced from a number of premises, which I don’t think are unreasonable in themselves. 1) that God is not bound by time, which would then suggest he can attend to every time, and thus to everything within the spatio-temporal “area.” If God were bound by time, there would be something problematic, I think, about the concept of God. 2) That God is loving, which I take from the fact that he sent his son to save the world (according to the Christian belief). That there is loving God outside or in the universe is not an impossibility, and it is something that Christianity claims, regardless of what other religions might say. 3) that God is infinite, in some way, which would mean that he was able to be present everywhere at once. If God is not infinite, there would be once again a problem in the conception of God. These are positions that theologians have held to for centuries, and in different religious traditions. It is from these that I think it is reasonable to say that God, since he is not limited (i.e., infinite), can be interested in everything he has created at the same time, and find those things interesting or important to himself, since he is supposedly loving. I don’t know why this would be problematic, and certainly does not entail that I personally know everything there is to know about God’s mind. I hope this helps to clarify some of the points you’ve raised, whether you agree with them or not.
Blessings.
JGB
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Hello JGB thanks for taking time to read and respond.
As to the efficiency argument; I think you agree with me that the only perspective we know is man’s. We can’t say anything about gods’, even if we allowed them to exist.
It is man who has said god has this and this ability. I have no knowledge of a time when a god said that. I am open to be taught.
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I think I didn’t respond to some part of this comment.
I think the premises are not valid. They carry with them the assumption that god is, that this god is known and so on. I don’t accept the premises. That said, there are theologians who in their theodicies have sought to reduce either the knowledge or the power of god.
Apart from infinity being an abstract thing to us, to think an infinite and omni god can also be caring and personal is, to me, a little illogical for lack of a better word.
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“In Genesis god rested on the seventh day. I don’t know whether it was out of tiredness or lack of ideas.” – Got drunk the night before; all-knowing, all-powerful, all-drunk, all-hungover.
The only way to explain away the incoherence of the god-concept is to claim god is beyond human comprehension. Maybe; but that also means god is beyond human interest. An unfathomable god is irrelevant, a god we can understand is too limited to be god. god seems to lose out in any event.
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An unknowable is not a god for humans. God looses in any event
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He’s a great bowler, though. Bowled a 276 game with me last Saturday night. Needless to say, I lost all the beer rounds.
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The composer of this list forgot a few things – like rape, lynchings, genocide…
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Here he can read about what his good “Christian nation” founded on “good Christian values and morals” did in this nation. All the way up to 1986 they have tried to exterminate my people. So in MY life time they were still attempting Genocide against my people.
Read idiotic statements and you will see “good Christians” violate half their sacred and holy commandments. Seems no different than the religion of pieces to me! Same hate different name.
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Yup homeland security and yes I know you don’t believe in any god and to me you’re still a good and moral person. Nothing wrong with different beliefs and even the belief that anyone who believes in god is one step from the loony house. Hehehe
Though the zealots are running the asylum at this moment. Christians mostly but some muslims too.
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ratamacue0, things like rape this god is indifferent to. It is concerned mainly about gay unions. You never hear a preacher say god is punishing whatever people for them being not caring but I have heard a lot of them say god sends his vengeance because of gay marriage
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My Nairobi brother, I was about to post a very profound thought on your post today. However, I began to read the thread of comments here and became completely distracted by the “showing up naked with beer and pizza” dialogue. Now, I have totally forgotten my thought! Forgive me, my friend. Mentally, I’m on “summer mode!” Also, I am a year older! Much love and naked hugs, my friend! 😉
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I’m bad like that. I guess I like being naked to much. /shrug
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Thoughts of me showing up naked with beer and pizza can be distracting. Oh, wait! It was thoughts of my 3 foot tall, bearded, round ass naked you were distracted by, wasn’t it? 🙂
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Did you remove your clothes as you were reading?
You are the last person who would be confused by guys going naked.
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No way! I got too involved in the discussion thread! Remember, I’m a year older now. The mind isn’t as brilliant and it was earlier! LOL! Love you, man!
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Belated wishes on your birthday.
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Thanks, my Nairobi brother! 🙂
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Man was made in the image of God we are told in the bbl…. presumably so folks can relate/love/worship. Because we undestand naturally love kindness cooperation family and problem solving. Anthropomorphic attributes are desirable in that context.
However, when life/shit/random events of catastrophic consequence, beit personal or collective, occur, the same bbl tells us that god’s thoughts are unknowable and we are just too plain dumb to get his reasons for allowing horrors to thrive…. That’s when anthropomorphic features breakdown. We have countless accounts of madmen’s actions resulting in suffering and chaos. ..
so ‘god can’t have human feelings or needs’ becomes the fall back position of the brainwashed and desperate.
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I see you have covered Job in your comment.
Love, anger, disappointment are very human feelings. If the believer wants to insist their god suffers these but differently, they must needs tell us what those words mean in a different existence
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Agreed
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Man was made in God’s image then god was a comedian cause guys are certainly not made equal. I have seen enough naked to say both things. 1 men are not made equal and 2 god must have been joking with some of the really tiny penis I have seen.
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I think god has many images. That is the only way to explain the facts as we see them
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Doesn’t look as it you made those plastic models as a kid, Mak, as if you had, you would know why Yahweh rested – he was waiting for the glue to dry before painting.
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He only used mud once. Other times he just willed things into being. Who gets tired from saying let there be?
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‘Presuppose’ the favoured word of most theists when debating.
In order to have even a rudimentary leg to stand on, they need this word to drive home their (pointless) point.
Their whole argument rests on it, thereby creating in their own minds the idea that we atheists DO believe in a supernatural deity figure and are just attempting to deny his/her/its existence due to our anger and hatred of God.
Theists seem to be unable to grasp the simple concept that WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN THEIR GOD!
This is but one of the reasons I tire of debating theists nowadays.
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There is no fun in debating theists. They will resort to words that give them some leg to stand on as probably, presuppose and so on. Crazy people they are.
Hi Cyber atheist.
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Hiya 🙂
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I thought John’s blog was boring. See, I did go and read. And he’s into all that original sin twaddle too. Now, naked discussions and beer are more interesting. Except I want vegetarian pizza. Well vegan to be really honest.
Have a good weekend Mak.
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I can make allowance for vegan pizza for my friends.
Have a pleasant weekend too.
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