"Any deity whose mysterious actions can't be measured or even directly identified is indistinguishable from a god that doesn't exist at all."
-- David G. McAfee
Therefore god = nothing. The math checks out.
"I turned to speak to God About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there."
-- Robert Frost
Only we can help us.
If you can credit god, you can blame god.
A god that’s incapable of responsibility is a god that doesn’t exist, because a perfect being can’t be made lesser by condemnation any more than it can be made greater by praise.
If your god was good, why would you have to try to explain anything about what it does - or doesn’t - do?
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Things we don’t understand can still be detected, either directly or by their influence on their surroundings. That’s why we know we don’t understand them. Saying that you can understand something yet it can’t be detected is admitting it exists nowhere else but within your understanding; that is, merely the product of your imagination.
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And why would you need to risk people’s lives to go see his empty palace once a week?
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When they defend their god’s absence by defining it as non-existent.
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Now, staring at my situation without my “faith lenses”, I realized that if I were God, and I had a son whose daughter lay dying in a hospital, and he asked me to heal her (which of course is well within my power, because I am God), I would have healed her in a heart beat, especially since love is kinda my thing. And it struck me like a bolt of lightning there and then, that I had been allowing confirmation bias to lead me by the nose. I had “read” whatever the outcome of any of my circumstances were, as being God’s answers to my prayers. For some unknown reason, I was suddenly able to see how ignorant that was…
I realized then that either:
1) If God existed, he was not involved in His creation. 2) If God existed, he was not the God of the Bible, because he didn’t fulfill the promises made by the God of the Bible 3) If God existed, I had no way of proving that he exists 4) There was a strong possibility that God doesn’t actually exist.
The wheels completely came off in literally a few days after that.
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Me:
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“But you say not only that there is a god, but you know what he wants. Well, I know you can't know that. It's not a matter of how clever you are - you can't know it. But why do you claim to? Because you think it might give you the right to tell me what to do. Well, fuck that."
-- Christopher Hitchens
“What god wants” is just what you want wrapped in an attempt to elicit reverence and deference while simultaneously avoiding justification and examination.
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