| FaRmLaNd said: "God has every right to do any with He likes (I use He there, because we are talking Christian context here), because all belongs to God. If it be suffering, or whatever, that is what it is. One doesn't even have to know or understand this, it either is or is not." And that is one my major issues with Christianity. As Hitchens would put it, its a celestial dictatorship of both the mind and the body. It makes sense in a way, that seperation from God could mean non-existence, and that as I said is no-where near as bad as eternal suffering in hellfire in the way some more malicious theologians have described it. Of course I wont mind actually isn't an apt description because if one ceases to exist they wont have a mind any longer. My other issue with religion is, that depending on where you were born you generally are born into another theology and since so many cultures are dominated by one theology it is in many ways difficult to say which one is and isn't right (or if any of them are) because if say an American Christian was instead born in India they'd be arguing that Hinduism is the proper faith etc. EDIT, feel free to disregard my later paragraphs as I see I inadvertaintly went away from discussing Christianity as the OP wanted. I do no wish to derail this thread and make it just another atheism vs theism thread. |
It is interesting the criticisms thrown at the Christian faith specifically, and God in general. On the one hand, experientially, the argument is God is not here. There is no evidence of God being anywhere, thus there can't be a God. Then, theoretically, the argument is that God is too much of a control freak and too much of a dictator, so no one would really want to live under that. What people would want is God to somehow selectively meddle in the universe, according to the whims and wishes of what people want. And to have everything funnel in that way, you would have a very weird set of reality, and people not in the same universe.
So, if there isn't God in this universe, exactly what would a universe with God look like? Maybe people could theorize and postulate on that one. Or maybe some people, deep down, don't want any God at all, because it would mean it would infringe upon their personal preferences and their freedoms to act how they choose. Of course, maybe this is too difficult for people to do, to postulate what it would be like, or even a simplier question of if there IS a God in this universe, how would you know.
