The Atheist Thread

Sure (although I do not have that much time)

 

If God existed (in the way religions see God as a so-called good entity), we can be sure that he would hate being adored and prayed upon. And certainly he would hate those helping their cause by using cheating, deceiving, lying, converting, using violence and other means to enforces rules he obviously does not care for. Those 10 commendments existed well before Moses wrote them down (even those relating to gods), since they are the base of communal/societal life, that even monkeys uses (but have not written down[IMG]height=17 alt=Wink src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>).  It is the ABC of living together. The rest is crap added.

 

Now this "creator" of the universe (provided there is less than one chance in a zillion he exists), has created thousands of galaxies,suns and planets, where life probably exists in forms we do not even imagine (for all we know mineral life could exists in other places and the Uranium atom being the most common element in that form of life >> just try to imagine that there is more chance of this happening than a creator existing[IMG]height=17 alt=Wink src="http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley2.gif" width=17 align=absMiddle>) light years appart. Do you actually think, this creator would care what happens on this planet, and certainly take time to talk to a few chosen ones?

 

Or are those claiming they talk to the creator simply not trying to mystify others and using this "fact" as a way to promote himself and up his profile to get advantages and imposes rules that make him the benefeciary or at least puthim in a central position and hand out advices that should be followed since he has the answers. This was the case from the early religions or shamanism days when the shamans said that volcanoes were gods being angry at the community because they were not obeying what the shaman was preaching, thus invoking fears. And the using of fears and superstitions from the phenomenons one does not understand is creating a power that the religious are all too quick to use. Andthose opposing a different view, were usually put to death or at least banned.

 

Thoose talking to god are generally highly suspicious to me (and not just in the "why them?" mode, but also in does the creator even have a capacity to communicate to his subjects), which does not mean that religious people are a threat in itself.