Oddbean

I think it's best to consider "God" to be the word people use to describe whatever created the universe as we know it. This entity or phenomenon may or may not be conscious, may or may not care about us, may or may not even exist. Seems intellectually dishonest to claim certainty that such a thing does or does not exist without verifiable proof either way.

God to me seems to be the term anxious humans use to explain what they are unable to. Rather than simply acknowledging and accepting that there’s stuff we haven’t figured out yet and maybe are incapable of comprehending altogether because of our biologically limited perception, these anxious creatures have to resort to magical thinking, aka faith. This would be all well and good, but some smart but terrible people long ago figured out a way to exploit this anxiety by claiming to know which version of God (ie: the unknown) was the real one (or ones). Since faith by definition means belief without evidence (or belief with only evidence the faithful can perceive - lol), it was really easy to sell people on their version of God and then get the faithful to do all manner of crazy shit in defense of their beliefs. Such is the nature of man, sadly. We are willing to wage war, elevate rulers, and sacrifice all manner of freedoms so long as we don’t have face the unknown or admit when we are wrong. Pathetic really. #grownostr #thinkdangerously

You seem to be saying that because science cannot explain everything, there must be a God. Why can’t there just be things that we don’t/can’t understand? Why are humans so unbelievably afraid of the unknown? Are there things a dog can’t understand? Is the SHA-256 algorithm evidence for God to cats everywhere? Oh wait, God only exists for humans right? Darn, now that I think about it, I’m not supposed to be having any of these thoughts at all. Questioning the existence of God is in itself a big no-no for the faithful correct? And, just checking, God will never provide any actual evidence for their existence since faith is all that is needed right? I can’t imagine any flaws whatsoever with that kind of belief system. JFC. Believe whatever fairytales you need to tell yourself to make it through your life but just know that it is entirely possible to live a happy and fulfilled life without such nonsense. By being susceptible to this kind of shit, you’re just making others rich and yourself weak. Peace be with you.