Why don't you believe in a god?

[sapphi_snake]

Soleron said:

sapphi_snake said:

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Even if such a beign existed and  did have such expectations of us, would it really matter? I mean just because this beign created us does it mean that we must be slaves to its whims?

If we are to keep the definition of God as an all-powerful, all-knowing universe creator that is worthy of eligious worship, yes.

If a being existed like that where we weren't "slaves to its whims" it wouldn't be God. It would be a universe-creating alien conciousness. Which is interesting but not really implied by the word god.

But if we are slaves to its whims mechanically then we do not have free will, and if we do have free will why should we be slaves to its whims? ALet's be honest, even the religious have never really had any concrete proof that they're deities are really are all-powerfull or all-knowing, other that the words of said deity in the first place (which would not be a reliable source, and of course this goes by the assumption that such a being exists in the first place). We are sentient beigns, why should we listen to any such entity? Nad the concepts of "all-powerfull" and "all-knowing" are themselves ridiculous.