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Author Topic:   if Nothing is Nothing then why a God?
Dan Carroll
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Message 15 of 40 (47336)
07-24-2003 6:31 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by Culverin
07-24-2003 5:26 PM


Re: So lazy it's hazy
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Logic dictates that there is no way to prove that God DOESN'T exist.
Actually, logic prevents you from making this challenge. The one asserting something's existence is the one who has to back it up.
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Without God, we have no purpose.
Save that which we create for ourselves.
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Without God, we also do not have a concrete foundation upon which to lay mores of Good and Evil.
Except for what will be best for the continued interaction of large numbers of people.
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Without God, everything is relative.
True. So?
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Without God, you have no reason to expect an afterlife and therefore, to expect consequences to your actions in this life.
Except for those consequences which occur within this lifetime, true. So?
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Without God, you are justified to do what you like, when you like, to whatever or whoever you like, as long as you are willing to accept the consequences of your actions, in this life.
True. Are you going somewhere with these?
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Without God, love has no rational long term reward
Except, of course, for love.
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Without God, the universe has no meaning.
Except for the meaning we give it.
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Without God I hate you all because it does not matter that I do.
Well, that's unfortunate. But it says more about you than it does about anything else.
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But with God, I have purpose.
That's cool. Run with that. Me, I have many purposes. With my writing and drawing, I have a purpose. With my girlfriend, I have a purpose. With my friends, I have a purpose. With a thousand other things I have a thousand other purposes.
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With God, there is a chance that there is more to our existence than meets the eye.
Why does this rely on God?
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With God, right and wrong, good and evil, up and down are all only subject to God's creation and not man's ideals.
Man's ideals are that scary, huh?
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With God, I can explain my existence in terms that do not lead to dispair, hatred and separation of self.
Again, this says more about you than it does about anything else.
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With God, I am defined and do not have to worry about my own self definition.
Ew. That sounds horrible.
This all sounds more like a failure of imagination on your part than it does a case for God. Is God really the only way you can find any meaning or happiness in life? If so, I feel sorry for you.

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