That doesn’t really sound like a difficult choice. How long would you have to burn before you’d decide you’d rather be lobotomized?
And? Of course people can be tortured into choosing abject slavery. That doesn’t make slavery good.
I didn’t say it was good but I gathered that the decision was something you’d have to think about.
My point was that no matter what, in such a world me and my dead relatives would be better off in oblivion than in either Heaven or Hell, so no I wouldn’t find the idea of an afterlife “comforting”.
A god who revealed itself just fucked up big time. That means it now is playing in the physical realm, strange powers notwithstanding. Not only am I joining the resistance, I’m going to find a way to take that fucker out.
“The current theory that God already exists in perfection involves the belief that God deliberately created something lower than himself when he might just as easily have created something equally perfect. That is a horrible belief: it could only have arisen among people whose notion of greatness is to be surrounded by inferior beings… and to enjoy the sense of superiority to them.”
G.B. Shaw in a letter to Leon Tolstoy
As far as I am concerned, I have performed my function which is to think about things and question things that are just begging for a good questioning.
If at that point the “great” designer of everything, including horrible medical deformations, decides that the beings it created which performed exactly as anticipated by the omniscient designer are not worth keeping around anymore, then he can continue with his genocide and exterminations and plagues which has been his benevolent policy ever since the Old Testament.
If the universe was created by someone worse than Hitler, it’s not going to change my point of view that he’s not worth worshiping. He can make and break his toys as he chooses, but I will be literally damned before I call him “God” or good.
Thankfully, such a being doesn’t exist. Instead of praising God and thanking God constantly, you might try being thankful that there isn’t a supreme dictator.
No need since I would not want to be in what the Christians call Heaven.
It is a place where memories are wiped, loved ones are no longer known. There are no challenges and existence is centred around worshipping a being.
Since I cannot find the time, need or desire to worship for a moment while exist in reality; an eternity is out of the question.
Yes this is Pauline Christianity which of course is not Christianity since its founder is Paul who does not follow the religion of the Apostles.
Thomas clearly needed evidence, the miracles performed by Jesus were to be EVIDENCE as well. Of course it is all bunk, but the Hebrew god, which was the god of the Jesus character; indeed supplied proof according to the myth.
Burning Bush
Walked with Adam
Talked with Abram
Sea of Reeds parting
Pillar of smoke
Pillar of Fire
Miracles performed by Prophets
All were supposed proofs of God, so FAITH is not needed.
Faith in the OT is not Faith of Paul. Faith of OT was supposed to be based on miracles/evidence of God’s existence.
Faith of Paul is built on no evidence, two completely different beasts called Faith.
The Christians have quite the God.
It is omniscient yet it has to check in on man and see what he is up to.
He is omnipotent but is having a battle with a lesser being
He is omnipresent but we can be separated it from it.
It does not exist in time or part of time line; but some how it is patient and waits for things or it becomes angry and goes into a range.
odd beast that it is .
If it turned out to be the Judeo/Christo/Islamo god, I’d fight and resist it. Captain Kirk was able to handle several gods throughout his career. Surely I can handle one.
But he had better writers.
I’d get my iron chariots ready (God’s only weakness) and take that fucker right out.
I’m pretty sure you can just wrestle the fucker to the ground and make him your bitch.
Q: “What’s the difference between God and Godzilla?”
A: “Godzilla can handle iron chariots.”
Will there only be white Republican’s there? LOL!
If god is perfect, why would it ever do anything? Perfection is the end of the road, it is death, nothing lies beyond it, a perfect thing can only move toward flaw. Either god is not perfect or it is not.
The OP specified that the big guy running the show turns out to be an asshole. Ok.
So. What do you do when you wake up one morning and discover that your democratically elected government has been overthrown? And that further investigation shows that the leader is a tyrant like Pinochet for example?
A1: It depends.
A2: You do what you can to get by and protect those you care about. In the OP’s case resistance if futile, so a lower profile makes sense.
Except that there’s no such thing as a low profile against an omniscient.
That occurred to me. I figured that keeping a low profile essentially implies submissiveness in a panopticon context. The meek inherit the earth and all that.
Of course if the big guy is an asshole with OCD it doesn’t matter what you do anyway. Off to the burning lake for those with impure thoughts!