• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    5·
    28 days ago

    God loves the righteous, but that’s a personal decision we make with the free will we’ve been endowed with, not something ‘given’ to us like our height or intellectual capacities. Many people are ‘better’ than me (taking/needing less, they’ve given more, for example) and all I can do is try to catch up, at my own pace, and I’m sure God will appreciate the effort.

    • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
      1·
      28 days ago

      …why do you believe in any of your statements?

      -Why would god, assuming there is one for some reason and that there is only one for some reason, favor the righteous? Why would he care that you live by the ever subjective moral code of an age and culture? You know included and includes (as third world countries exist) burning witches (say woman who floated on water for not letting go of their breath and drowning) -Being endowed with something means being given, I assume you means created with? Ever owned/seen a cat or a dog? Tho cats are kinda a more dramatical example… -Looking around, in a world which is kinda empty 99,9999999999999999% and where the unlucky freeze and starve on streets in first world countries… I am sure your god cares about your personal growth…

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    4·
    28 days ago

    What if I’m in my Job era and I think that God hates me more than everyone else?

    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      28 days ago

      Oh come now, God doesn’t hate you!

      At worst he just cares about you less than everyone else, hate would imply some form of directed animosity, which would be as silly as you or I having enmity towards one specific microbe!

      • s@piefed.worldEnglish
        3·
        28 days ago

        I have enmity for that first COVID-19 virion that found its way to where it shouldn’t be

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      27 days ago

      But then how am i special?

      How will i appeal to a universal authority figure for my sense of self so i can be both completely arrogant and completely self loathing at the same time?

      How will i justify literally anything i want?

      How would i maintain my philosophically protected ‘terminate’ button for every scary thought?

      How would i exaggerate my daddy issues abd literally go to war about them!?

      Sorry, no, i would rather not live in your nightmare world. Therefore god, exactly the god i want, exists!

      • glorkon@lemmy.world
        1·
        27 days ago

        Wait, so you’re telling me that if I pretend to believe in an imaginary being, I can feel special?

        It sounds tempting. Can I also attack anyone personally if they question my belief as if they’ve attacked me as a person?

        And I also always really wanted to tell people that they hate god, even though they say he doesn’t even exist. I’m sure this somehow violates every law of logic in existence, but I really want to.

        Can I justify killing people for believing in the same god as me but slightly different?

        Also, well, this one is a bit odd: I have this urge to tell people who they are allowed to have sex with. If your belief allows me to do all this, I’m on board.

          • glorkon@lemmy.world
            2·
            27 days ago

            My God (I shall use upper case for Him from now on because that somehow makes Him seem more imposing) says all I have to do is find something in the scriptures that I can somehow reinterpret to mean exactly what I need to justify any of my arguments.

            So, I hereby declare that I can certainly do that, because it says in the holy scriptures: “At least it’s good to be on the winning side.” (Mother Goose & Grimm, April 29, 2001, Panel 4)

            Which I interpret to mean that I am right, therefore I have no further obligation to give proper reasons and any arguments against my opinion are completely invalid.