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Thread #100409   Message #2017993
Posted By: Little Hawk
05-Apr-07 - 11:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: One compelling reason for a god?
Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for a god?
How can what is infinite not "be there"? And how would you go about looking for it? You can't find that which is already everywhere, because it doesn't stand out apart from anything else. You can't find what is not separate (it can't be observed), nor can you define it, nor can you measure it or make any deals with it or appease it in any way...and there would certainly be no use in fearing it. You could deny it with no consequences...after all, what difference would your denial possibly make? If you don't believe in it, why would it care? It would be like a cell in your body not believing that YOU exist. Who really cares if the cell believes you exist or not? Only the cell cares about that! ;-) And maybe some other cells do too.

If the cell in your body theorized that you were there and decided to worship you, it would probably get at loggerheads with other cells in your body that didn't believe you were there, and it would get into even worse fights with other cells who DID believe you were there, but had a rather different way of describing you.

And that, to my way of thinking, pretty well sums up the foolishness of humans arguing with one another over "God" (pro and con).