--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, grate.swan <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Billie, what if God doesn't exist? Or Go exists and God is found > > to be way different than you conceptualize God? > > > > I imagine your reaction would be one of devastation -- but that is > > only speculation. > > > > I imagine if God exists and Curtis met God, he would say "cool" > > -- so to speak, -- I am sure he would have more eloquent words. > > His life would be similar to how it is now. > > Which, if there is a God, I imagine God, ironically. would find the > use of God as a crutch less worthy than one who is thinking and > acting with tools God created in him. > > And if God actually prefers the man using God as a crutch, then that > may speak to the deficiency of the God's creative power to create > self-sufficient beings. That such had God may be a lesser God -- not > the Creator of the entire cosmos. > > Think about it -- God has to manage the whole Cosmos. If God is smart > -- and if God exists I hope its a smart God ( what if God is like > Bush) -- from God's view, or any managers, is it more efficient to > micro manage every single thing God creates humans, plants, cells, > galaxies) or to create the tools within each being to be make > decisions far down the chain of command as possible. > > If man is truly made in the image of God, then doesn't it follow > that man has the blueprint -- and has the resources to (eventually) > figure it out and manage their lives productively and with other > people and nature?
My suspicion is that the "blueprint" comes from us, not from God. "If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides." - old Yiddish proverb > What parent wants their kid living at home at 30, totally dependent > on the parents for sustenance and guidance in every single little > thing that comes along? If no parents want this, why would God, for > God's sake, want it? Gotta agree. The *sickest* belief system I can imagine is that which postulates a "jealous god." You know, the "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" thang. How petty. How human to project that onto what you conceive of as God. "When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'" - Quentin Crisp
