Re: God
By: nightcrawler to Atari X on Sun Jan 10 2010 05:55 pm
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> This is a very poor reason for being an atheist. You are assuming if there i
> a god, he is some form of a theistic god, ignoring the fact that if there is
> a creator, he merely could be some form of deistic one. Meaning he/it, set
> life in motion, but doesn't act in human affairs. (I am an agnostic, but thi
> would make more sense to me than any thiestic god, because it is based on
> human self-importance.
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> Nightcrawler +o Dark Sanctuary
The model you are talking about is called the "Grand Clockmaker" model - where
God is this universally powerful clockmaker who set our universe into motion
and then moved on to something else.
Which to me is the same as believing that there is no God at all. If God is
not going to involve himself in human affairs, then his existence to me is
meaningless - there's certainly no reason to pray to him, or get spiritual
guidane from him, or believe that he will give us an afterlife.
And certainly no reason to build a religion around him.
He'd be no different than some shmoe down the street whom I don't know and
never see.
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