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Anon ponders the cosmic mysteries (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The funny part is that if there were a god (there isn't), he would absolutely be an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This assumes that if there was a god they are perfect and chose to make us with teeth that fail, bodies that get cancer, anger issues and mental health problems, etc

While that could be the case it could also be the case that if there was a god said god could just be a much higher level lifeform that could create galaxies and life and shit, but still was maybe not all that good at it. Like look at humanity. We can do crazy shit, we can make computers that do incomprehensible things to humans that existed as little as 50 years ago. But those computers still fucking suck and crash all the time, blue screen, lose data, etc.

Maybe there was a god that made humanity but he just wasn’t very good at it and as a result we now have cancer and war. and maybe they’re up there like “oh they’re deifying me, that’s super awkward bc it’s totally my fault their first child died of leukemia at 7 years old”. Or maybe they did all that and now they’re dead too because they’re not actually a god but just a higher lifeform and were deifying a loser that would’ve gotten a c on their biology homework

but there’s probably not one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

An interesting argument. I don't think I've heard anyone seriously put this forward, only George Carlin (who was perhaps serious but not presenting it seriously).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to be funny, but would you also characterize "nature" as being an asshole?

[–] funkless_eck 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

if it was a sentient being making the choices - yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Gotcha. I guess I don't really see "God" as a sentient being exclusively, so applying characteristics to him has always been a challenge.