Mind-blow: Our choices are not pre-determined, but God knows

[famousringo]

happydolphin said:

famousringo said:

Right, so god either isn't all knowing, didn't create the universe, or I'm a slave to some cosmic asshole who's responsible for everything wrong in the world.

I say we give god a break and admit it doesn't know everything.

He's not responsible... WE ARE. We have free will, and made all our choices ourselves. He just was there to see it happen, before it happened.

Can you blame him for making you alive? Really?

No, I don't blame god, because I don't think it knew how things would turn out. Otherwise we're basically just characters in a book that god wrote. In that case, god is a pretty terrible writer to have created a character as dull as myself. God should learn to focus more on compelling and sympathetic characters if it ever wants to go past self-publishing.

You're arguing that we have as much free will as Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan. The author just "knows" what they'll do but Tarzan is actually making all the decisions.

Why do you assign god a gender? I always thought that was silly thing for monotheism to do. Does he bang ladygods and make godbabies?