I am thankful for...
OK on The big Turkey day first off was just a great day. Thanks to Darren and Gina for having me over. Special thanks to Gina for running to the pharmacy early in the morning for me so that I could make it out of bed at all. Thanks to Bernard for being the other Hawk in seen it. Thanks to the other two barking Atheists for Trivial Pursuit.
I said when we were at the table, "I'm thankful there is no god because if there was man would that suck!"
Someone who I'll leave nameless responded, "Yes because I would burn in hell if there was."
I realized right then that if there really were a god it could (and likely would) be way worse than any of the gods that various groups of people have created for themselves. For example the xtians think that their god is benevolent and loves them. Granted they also believe that a tsunami that kills just fucking bazillions of people is also this same loving god's will, but this is a side point.
Now imagine we were created by something. Imagine that thing thought of us very much in the same way someone who kept naked mole rats thought of his charges. Imagine he or she had a cruel streak. See how much worse that is than NO GOD?
I'm so thankful there is no god.
I said when we were at the table, "I'm thankful there is no god because if there was man would that suck!"
Someone who I'll leave nameless responded, "Yes because I would burn in hell if there was."
I realized right then that if there really were a god it could (and likely would) be way worse than any of the gods that various groups of people have created for themselves. For example the xtians think that their god is benevolent and loves them. Granted they also believe that a tsunami that kills just fucking bazillions of people is also this same loving god's will, but this is a side point.
Now imagine we were created by something. Imagine that thing thought of us very much in the same way someone who kept naked mole rats thought of his charges. Imagine he or she had a cruel streak. See how much worse that is than NO GOD?
I'm so thankful there is no god.
posted by J.R. at 9:52 AM
2 Comments:
If it would suck THAT much, are you betting against Pascal? ;-)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager)
I am not. There is no need to walk up to his table. Premis numbers one and four don't hold. I am refering of course to the proof that hell is endothermic. Pascal dorks it up by lumping all of them into a belief system that is consistent with one another. If you start adding in all the factions of believers the EV will drop very quickly because of the addition variable of which god to believe in.
That being said, yes I'm betting against.
Besides := as an assignment operator... please! Who even published this man? :-)
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