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Is there a god?

- JeremyLuebke (@)

Jeremy, that is a good question. And very hard to answer. Ultimately I think it falls on each of us to make some time to answer the question as an individual. Because it would be unethical, and in some places illegal, for me to get you so high that you touch the unnameable that either is or is not the God that you speak of I must defer to asking opinions.

Fredrick Nitsche: God is Dead <–(links to YouTube Video)

Obviously F-Niche believes there was at one time a God, but alas our repugnant nature turned said God belly up. Which either means yes (but now no), or it was all a social construct. So, Niche leaves it up in the air.

Thomas Aquinas: I can conceive of such a thing that is perfect, and in being perfect it must exist. For existence is more perfect than non-existence so it must be that the thing I conceive is true.

So, I had to paraphrase a bit, but, no real help from Tommy-boy. For a proof it contains far less math than say the Pythagorean Theorem, now that’s a proof. I will turn his statement around a bit: I can conceive of the perfect cake and in being the perfect cake it must exist for “being” is prerequisite to being perfect. the obvious hole in the logic is that I consider “being in my belly” as being prerequisite to being the perfect cake. Hence, the perfect cake does not actually exist; because it is already inside of me.

The same problem hits every individual. Does perfect connote existence? And that is a different bag of worms all together.

Penn Jillette: Believing there is no God means the suffering I’ve seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn’t caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn’t bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

Penn says no. No, there is no god. We are responsible for all good, all evil, and there is no redemption save reformation & active pennance. The active belief that God is a fallacy allows for open interactions pan-culturally and the increased ability to take responsiblity for our part in the world.

My Mom: What is wrong with you?

My mom brings up a point. Does it really matter? However, I don’t think that was her intention in the statement.

I think that there are people who are comforted by the concept of total subjugation to something that is out of their control and there are people that are comforted by the concept of efficacy. For each of those people the answer is different. Finding an answer to: How do I fit into the Universe beyond what I can see? is something that every person should take the time to do.

Because there is more to Heaven and Earth than is dreamed of in the philosophy of man, Jeremy Luebke.

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