Athiests & Agnostics - if you believed in God ... Pt. 1

[Henners]

You can choose to abandon your biological parents and place someone else in that influential role.

The way to do that in England is to could find an yourself egotistical paediatrician, get them to ask a few highly relevant questions and arrange to have yourself put into care and your parents into jail.

Are you sure that you have thought this through and aren't just making a pile of piddly excuses?

 

[Furi]

The way to do that in England is to could find an yourself egotistical paediatrician, get them to ask a few highly relevant questions and arrange to have yourself put into care and your parents into jail.

Are you sure that you have thought this through and aren't just making a pile of piddly excuses?

Or you can do it the other way around, and go on a trip to Portugal

 

[A Christian Sceptic]

The way to do that in England is to could find an yourself egotistical paediatrician, get them to ask a few highly relevant questions and arrange to have yourself put into care and your parents into jail.

Are you sure that you have thought this through and aren't just making a pile of piddly excuses?

Was your comment about the Spawn of Satan a serious comment or sort of a playful jab? Irregardless - at least here in America there are many examples of people (especially kids) who run away and / or choose someone else to be an authority over them. If your comment was serious than my response is people aren't born a Spawn of Satan. But really - I doubt we'll agree on this if you don't even believe in God. But it was a fun little exchange.

 

[sackett]

I could almost believe in a finite god, that is, a god who can’t do everything.

I picture him as a harassed little old Jewish man scuttling around the cosmos, trying to keep things from getting any worse out of control.

“Zo vun day dere vas dis zingularity, chust a liddle vun, and instead of letting it collepse like usual, I kep’ it open – who knows why, so I’m a nudnik! – und schplotz! Da whole univoise comes out already!

“At foist, I vas zo heppy! A univoise, no less! But den it got bigger, and schraege – you know schraege, crooked? – und I’m zayink ‘Shtop awreddy! Genug! Enough! Too much, vot’s all dis evil yet? I din’t mean all dot!’

“But it keeps expendink, and now oy vey iz mir, ach mein aching tukhis! All etoinity I’m runnink around, schlepping, schtupping, mein hairs I could tear out, not even time to drink a liddle gless tea, eat a schtukel a brod! I can’t do miracles!

“Vell, hokay, so I can do maybe a liddle miracles sometimes. But not all da time! Zo dun’t count on it, hokay? Oy, mein aching feets!”

And off he scuttles, a god for sure, but one I can sympathize with, and just possibly help now and then.

 

[DoubtingStephen]

I could almost believe in a finite god, that is, a god who can’t do everything.

I picture him as a harassed little old Jewish man scuttling around the cosmos, trying to keep things from getting any worse out of control.

“Zo vun day dere vas dis zingularity, chust a liddle vun, and instead of letting it collepse like usual, I kep’ it open – who knows why, so I’m a nudnik! – und schplotz! Da whole univoise comes out already!

“At foist, I vas zo heppy! A univoise, no less! But den it got bigger, and schraege – you know schraege, crooked? – und I’m zayink ‘Shtop awreddy! Genug! Enough! Too much, vot’s all dis evil yet? I din’t mean all dot!’

“But it keeps expendink, and now oy vey iz mir, ach mein aching tukhis! All etoinity I’m runnink around, schlepping, schtupping, mein hairs I could tear out, not even time to drink a liddle gless tea, eat a schtukel a brod! I can’t do miracles!

“Vell, hokay, so I can do maybe a liddle miracles sometimes. But not all da time! Zo dun’t count on it, hokay? Oy, mein aching feets!”

And off he scuttles, a god for sure, but one I can sympathize with, and just possibly help now and then.

That seems to be a very likable deity you propose. One that a person might enjoy talking to for hours at a time, perhaps with suitable refreshments.

 

[TobiasTheViking]

For those who consider themselves Athiests or Agnostics,

I'm genuinely curious and hoping for serious answers.

There are probably a couple ways to phrase this question:

If you believed in God what would God be like and why?

or

If you wished there was a God what would God be like and why?

Pretty easy to answer.

God would:
a) Be good
b) Not care if you pray or believe
c) Not create a world with bad things in it(by this i mean natural phenomena)
d) Not create a world with bad humans in it(i know i know, free will bla bla bla, ********)
e) Make sure you go to heaven, even if you don't believe in God, just as long as you area good person
f) make sure everyone is a good person
g) etc etc etc.

 

[bruto]

I like Sackett's God.

But seriously, the only God I can believe in is so strange and inconceivable that logic and description are worthless, so remote that interaction is pointless, and so impersonal that worship is superfluous.

 

[drzeus99]

I'll give the author of the OP a thought to ponder.

Imagine YOURSELF as god. All powerful, all knowing, eternal..blah blah.
Perfect...All Loving...you get the point, right.

Now, if YOU, as the new god, were to create a universe (and humans),
how would you go about it.

I think if you're truthful to yourself, you're ideal universe would be FAR
more perfect than the one we live in.

A perfect god would (could) never create anything unperfect. Why would they?
Bored? Then they wouldn't be perfect.

You'd find out that you by yourself would create a much nicer world, were people loved each other, and hopefully you wouldn't be vain and want people to actually worship you. That would be an ego boost, which, for a perefect being, is unnecessary.

See where I'm going with this.