An Evil Index

mrnoodle · 02-15-2005, 11:53 AM

People just aren't that smart. We make dumb choices all the time, despite what we know to be right. "I can beat that train," "I know I'm married, but who will ever know?", "Yes, the volcano's going to erupt, but I'm not leaving my house dammit."

So God appears to everyone, completely erases all doubt of his existence, and manages to convince us that we're not hallucinating. Hell, maybe even Radar is convinced. Then what? When you have kids, and you tell them "God appeared to me," they'll look at you like you've just gotten off the bus from Mars. A thousand years go by, and people reading our record of what we saw God do (our Bible, so to speak) will have the choice to believe it or not. Cue wars, biblical theme parks, blogs, ad infinitum.

Unless what you're saying is that God has to personally appear in Technicolor to every member of his creation at whatever point they decide they want to see him or else they're not going to believe. That wouldn't be a God, that would be your own little dog and pony show. Maybe after the first couple thousand years of people saying, "Oh yeah? PROVE there's a God," he just got a little bored with the whole thing.

Happy Monkey · 02-15-2005, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by mrnoodle

Unless what you're saying is that God has to personally appear in Technicolor to every member of his creation at whatever point they decide they want to see him or else they're not going to believe.

Would that be too taxing? The rest of the physical world is available for every generation, not just once every 2000 years or so near the Mediterranean.

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That wouldn't be a God, that would be your own little dog and pony show. Maybe after the first couple thousand years of people saying, "Oh yeah? PROVE there's a God," he just got a little bored with the whole thing.

That sounds more like a Greek or Roman god, ruled by whims, than one of infinite love, compassion, and patience. I'm not particularly impressed by "but God is too big and important and busy to show up to you, just take the word of people 2000 years ago." arguments.

02-15-2005, 11:53 AM	#1
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	People just aren't that smart. We make dumb choices all the time, despite what we know to be right. "I can beat that train," "I know I'm married, but who will ever know?", "Yes, the volcano's going to erupt, but I'm not leaving my house dammit." So God appears to everyone, completely erases all doubt of his existence, and manages to convince us that we're not hallucinating. Hell, maybe even Radar is convinced. Then what? When you have kids, and you tell them "God appeared to me," they'll look at you like you've just gotten off the bus from Mars. A thousand years go by, and people reading our record of what we saw God do (our Bible, so to speak) will have the choice to believe it or not. Cue wars, biblical theme parks, blogs, ad infinitum. Unless what you're saying is that God has to personally appear in Technicolor to every member of his creation at whatever point they decide they want to see him or else they're not going to believe. That wouldn't be a God, that would be your own little dog and pony show. Maybe after the first couple thousand years of people saying, "Oh yeah? PROVE there's a God," he just got a little bored with the whole thing. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

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