| Pretty Little Flower |
04-03-2013 04:45 PM |
Re: actual thoughtful question
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
(Post 478162)
Why does the creator have to have a plan, or design? Seems a pretty unfounded assumption to reject out of the hand the notion the creator may have been fucking around and accidentally created life. This might explain why the creator lets all those babies in Africa get AIDS, and your kitten be run over by the neighbor's Winnebago... God's not watching the shop.
It's always an uncaring God, or a loving God, or a vengeful God. Why not an absent-minded God? A God who's the kind of God who'd leave the wash in the machine too long, until it mildewed, because he got caught up in House of Cards. I'd like that God.
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I'm not ruling anything out, but it seems a bit unlikely that there is this omniscient, omnipotent God who is also kind of scatter-brained and does things by accident. But I understand your impulse. We all want to see God in our image, and you see God as a good dude who sometimes takes that extra toke and leaves the frozen pizza in the oven until it catches on fire. And, like, one day, he was fucking around with lightning because he and his other God buddies were totally baked and it was even better than a light show at a Pink Floyd tribute (which they hadn't invented yet), and like, whoa, did I just accidently shoot the lightning into the primordial ooze and create what could possibly be the precursor to sentient life? I should should stop that in its tracks and pronto! But his God buddies were like, "No, dude, just leave it! Let's see what happens. I mean, like, we already know what happens because of the omniscient thing and all, but you know what we mean. Let's go get some nachos." Or whatever the God equivalent of nachos is. |
