Originally posted by Strangelove
In all likelihood, if there is a God, then he/she/it has no clue that we exist.
If such a God existed, than they wouldn't be a God. Since any and all forms of "god(s)" are normally defined with the 3-O's, amongst these being Omniscient, to "have no clue" would not know, and a God that does not know is not an all knowing God, and therefore not God.
Re: My God...
Originally posted by lord xyz
Okay, as an atheist I shouldn't really make a thread about what I believe our God is. But I'm sure some other atheists would agree with me on this.See my God likes everything we do, that's why we can do it. The things my God doesn't want us to do are live without a brain, breathe liquid or solid, perform magic, and anything else impossible. My God doesn't want us to worship him, (s)he sees no point in it, my God doesnt want us to claim opinion as fact, for that harms our intelligence and makes us delusional. My God does not want that. My god only made us, (s)he isn't our leader or saviour, and we shouldn't really care about him/her.
Do you like my God?
Note: This may have come out wrong, but if you're intelligent enough, you would probably realise what my God is.
Actually, I think your God and I will get along pretty well. I don't think I'm an atheist - I like to think that this 60 - 80 years on this ball of mud and water is not the be-all and end-all of my whole existence. I like to think that this is just an adventure, and that death is just the beginning of a whole new adventure.
This basically forces me to think that there is something more out there, something I can't (as yet) explain. Otherwise, if we just existed of brains, blood and balls, we would die and this adventure would be ever.
But I cannot, and will not, accept that. I want to go on and have more, even greater adventures. And in order to do that, I will need to have a spirit, or a soul, or a whatever-you-may-call-it - something that will allow me to exist after death.
That, I think (but I'm not sure) disqualifies me as an atheist.
I like to think of God as an Eternal Watcher, somebody I can talk to when I need to - somebody who made me, somebody who gave me brains, blood and balls, and who's cheering me on, hoping I fulfill all my dreams - yet somebody wise enough to realise that the only way I can learns is to make mistakes.
The same way a mommy or a daddy bird kicks their chick out of the nest - they have fed him, and waited until he is old enough to survive - but at some stage he is either gonna have to fly or die.
What you do is up to you.l