29 Apr '08 03:37>
Originally posted by dizzyfingersWhen I say 'god-like' I am referring to what most religious people think about when they say 'god'. It is not my idea of a god.
From reading your post here, I see a lot of criticism of religious people doing things that are not very "god-like." To make such observations, you must have some idea of things that would be "god-like." How can that be if there is no God? I think that perhaps without realizing it, you've admitted that there is a God, but that you're having a real hard ...[text shortened]... he wrongs you've done to others, too. That would be very "god-like" on your part. 🙂
My idea of a real god would be for it to just come out and say what a religion should consist of, that is to say, since a god would by definition be able to speak directly all 6 billion of us at once and all the trillions dead and trillions yet to be born, a god should have no trouble doing that. Just saying something like have one god if you want but have one religion also, one that does not kill in the name of a god. I realize that brings up the issue of freedom of choice and all that but the very fact there are diabolically and diametrically opposed religion proves to me there is in fact no such god. The simple truth is we have made up the whole story of god out of nothing but thin air, in all its forms for tens of thousands of years. There is an anthropological study (in the anthro thread here) claiming the onset of our very imagination tens of thousands of years ago is what separates us from animals and that early imagination is what started the quest for god in many forms, animal totems, sky totems, sun worship, etc. and down the centuries to Judisam, Islam, Christianity, Jaynes, Buddhists, and all the rest, starting out of nothing but our imaginations which is what I had been saying all along. The really sad part is people acting as if an imaginary friend helps them out but all it does in fact is to hold them back from true maturity as a species, much as you would vociferously disagree I am sure. That just makes you part of the problem not the solution. The solution is to realize that just like every other animal on the planet we are alone, isolated on a jewel of a planet and we are even screwing that up and there will be no big buddy in the sky to take away all the CO2 and pollution and atomic bombs stolen away after the end of the soviet empire and all that. If people realized we are on our own here, they MIGHT, just might, look at things in a clearer light.