Just_me_Mike
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Indirectly God did create this forum. Even if it was just the idea of God. Amazing how powerful just the idea of God can be.:jester5:
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Indirectly God did create this forum. Even if it was just the idea of God. Amazing how powerful just the idea of God can be.:jester5:
But you my friend are drawn to this one. So you can see the opposite end of the spectrum and assure yourself, that you are right!I'm sure we could find similar forums discussing the existence of leprechauns, fairies, ghosts, and anything that the superstitious human mind is capable of dreaming up.
Moderator god can you fix my title to say created instead of ceated
But you my friend are drawn to this one. So you can see the opposite end of the spectrum and assure yourself, that you are right!
I don't blame you...
Side note, I hope the creators of this forum don't get offended by you comparing their handiwork to a discussion of leprechauns.
OK.Indirectly God did create this forum. Even if it was just the idea of God. Amazing how powerful just the idea of God can be.:jester5:
No. Rex, an atheist, btw, created this forum. I know because I helped him.Indirectly God did create this forum. Even if it was just the idea of God. Amazing how powerful just the idea of God can be.:jester5:
I'm sure we could find similar forums discussing the existence of leprechauns, fairies, ghosts, and anything that the superstitious human mind is capable of dreaming up.
Which god? Zeus? Yaweh? Jehovah? Apollo? Od? Set? Anubis? Bastet? The Flying Spaghetti Monster? One of the Titans? The Mother Earth Goddess?
More than the concept of god(s), I think human nature created the forums. It's us trying to understand our surroundings, which is the exact reason why god(s) were created in the first place.
Amazing how powerful just the idea of God can be.:jester5:
Side note, I hope the creators of this forum don't get offended by you comparing their handiwork to a discussion of leprechauns.
Of course. But that doesn't deny the power that the concept "God" has for humanity.
It apparently speaks to something important about our experience as humans.
I think the concept of "the conscious designer" speaks directly to our experience of reality. God is most certainly a part of human nature, even if just understood as an abstract concept.
Nor does it deny the power of the concepts of ghosts, unicorns, and fairies.
Yes, it speaks to our pattern-seeking, superstitious minds.
Yes, in exactly the same way that the concept of giving (Santa Claus), the concept of irrational fear (The monster hiding under your bed), or the concept of mixed fortune (Leprechauns). We personify them to make our fears (and joys) easier to accept, and to make it possible to explain these strange, powerful emotions to young children.
We personified the idea of a creator to accept and explain the concept of our own origins and justify things we couldn't yet explain with our five senses. I'm more than willing to admit that the concept of a god is individually a very simple and elegant solution to an otherwise nearly unsolvable problem, but these gods aren't responsible for our creation. We're responsible for theirs.
"...the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us...to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial...I think the belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it is a matter of love; of accepting the possibility that God could love us."