Wandering Idiot wrote:
I said Ve could could be a bastard, i.e. not omnibenevolent, and as such could have done a shoddy job on purpose. Just for kicks. Which would mean MiB wouldn't respect Ver, but I think God can live with that...
Alright, so would a fair summary of God-as-you-have-postulated-Him-to-be be:
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Well, He could be an all powerful, ultimately benevolent God, or not. And He might be a nice guy and want followers, or He might not give two cents and screw people over for kicks. And by the way, He's omnipotent, which means He writes both the rules of reality and He scripts the game that is played by those rules, but He might just obey the rules because He wants to.
Alright, all of that is true. I don't have any real argument against the existence of such a being, any more than you have presented an argument
for His existence. You have come up with a rather reactive hypothesis on what God might be, but have no evidence to support this hypothesis other than that no one has disproved it yet. Futhermore, you have twisted the definition of "God" (which I understood to be the traditional, Judeo-Christian,
omnipotent, ultimately benevolent God that is most often discussed) to such an extent that the conversation is now meaningless. Of course there
may be something powerful out there that doesn't care, is spiteful, and maybe even keeps hidden, but if there is, what's the fucking difference?
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