Holy Cultural Appropriation, Batman!
Some folks would, if it were up to them, condemn no one to eternal suffering.
What would the God you have in mind do?
Do you know any Christians who would put their finger in a hot light socket? Do you know any Christians who never sin? Sometimes religions exaggerate to make a point because it always gets watered down in our brains.
Jesus? Oh, wait, he was Jewish.
Oh, my apologies; let me frame that question differently.
What would the God you have in mind do?
Well seeing is that there’s only one God I would say that one
What would that God do? You keep answering questions I haven’t asked, instead of the one I’m, y’know, asking.
And (he asks patiently, but tiredly) what particular sect’s God might that be?
It is an operating system, as I have said several times already, it requires a hard installation to work. If it is working properly, we behave a little better. End of story. I do firmly believe in God, but I think religion is about giving us a version we can work with. I have no concept of what God actually is.
Your story answered no questions.
Because all the questions have one purpose that has nothing to do with God or religion. No one can answer those questions.
My question is What Would That God Do?
It is not important what God would do; what matters is what my conscience tells me what God would do.
What does your conscience tell you God would do?
Dodge straightforward questions, obviously!
That’s just doing whatever you want and sticking the “God” label on it as a self-justification.
Is there an internet “law” similar to Godwin’s that says:
The probability of any discussion that starts out being about a specific aspect of religion turning into a debate about whether there is a deity approaches 100% as the discussion grows longer.
If not, I claim it.
When you say ‘people’ are you referring to all children, or only those children who grow up in a religious environment where explanations for everyday phenomena are invariably some variation of ‘God did it’?
And by ‘lives in the subconscious’, are you suggesting that it’s difficult to ‘deprogram’ someone entirely if they were taught that miracles existed as a child?
I’m fairly sure religion wasn’t ‘introduced’ but rather evolved over centuries as various tribes and societies tried to make sense of the world around them.
I’m not at all clear what the point about God being a model is referring to. I’d guess it could be about a personal moral code, but it would be helpful to have this clarified.
The idea that atheists do this is a persecution myth the Christian right tells itself along the same lines as the notion that the real racism in the US is against whites. I know of no teach at the grade school level who teaches to their class that god doesn’t exist. If they did such a thing they would be fired and rightfully so.
The worst that they do is teach facts that are in variance to what some Cristians believe are true. But if the bar is that only those facts that do not go against some group’s firm belief are allowed to be taught then you will effectively end education entirely. People deny the holocaust and the moon landings should those no longer be taught in school, or perhaps we should teach to the controversy?
That’s religion for you.
The thing about atheism is that the religious want it to be about denying the Existence of God (an ephemeral concept virtually impossible to prove one way or the other definitively) when it’s actually more like denying the Validity of Religion.