Re: God
By: Atari X to nightcrawler on Mon Jan 11 2010 02:37:45
> The model you are talking about is called the "Grand Clockmaker" model - whe
> 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.
Part of the trouble that I'm having in discussing this with you is that you
seem to have a specific definition of "God" in your head (one that requires
"faith" to be believed in, etc.) Many people believe many different things.
What harm would it do to believe in the clockmaker, even if his existence was
meaningless?
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