If gods could exist, would Atheists prefer divinity to their current disbelief in somesort of higher power.

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: destrekor
heh I was referencing how you took my whole idea and then ended with the notion of none of it essentially mattering in the end in terms of our life.
you didn't really make them worthless. I just kind of thought it was a funny thought.
carry on :laugh:

Ah, right. Yeah, I do that sometimes.
It's similar to something Stephen Hawking said about the multiverse - stuff outside our little bubble of spacetime can't affect what's inside, and what's inside can't get out, therefore whatever is outside doesn't really matter.

Originally posted by: WHAMPOM

Originally posted by: Braznor
Would you prefer (hypothetically speaking of course) having gods to your current state of (dis)belief in any form of higher power? By divinity, I don't even mean any of the current religions of today, but anything at all constructed as a sentient higher power responsible for the creation of the universe.

Would Atheists believe in God if there was evidence? Ya that is pretty much the credo, provide evidence. Other than that, I don't know what the hell you're talking about!

But if there was proof of God's existence, he'd just wind up vanishing in a puff of logic.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
What if you can't handle the truth though? What if the reason for existing is to entertain that deity? What if that deity gets sexually aroused by us, and we're little more than pornographic material? What if we're the yeast in a big batch of bread? What if we're being guided toward producing antimatter weapons, so that we can purge a deity's plumbing system of all the caked-on crud? Would you really want that to be your purpose for existing?

All of this is pretty silly, and not very objective. We are what we are. I can already see that. I'm not concerned that we find out we're some low opinion of what we might think we are within the constraints of our own reality, but where we fit in outside of that.

Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Why would you require or prefer a reason instead of finding your own reason?

I'm just curious.

Those are not exclusive. That's why I prefer not require. I can find my own reason. I'm referring to the perfectly objective external reason. The mirror not filtered by my personal perspective.
Anyway, if God exists, I will have questions for Him no matter how long I live or how wise and knowledgeable I become, and in that case I expect Him to have answers. That's all.