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In reply to the discussion: School Shootings - More Evidence of a Non-Existent Deity? [View all]Moostache
(10,163 posts)Yes (Rational person...likely Democrat in the USA)
No (Bleeding Idiot and likely shill for carbon-based energy company, definitely a Republican in the USA)
Maybe (Someone in need of a good kick in the pants to make up their mind...)
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When a binary question is under consideration, the insertion of a tertiary, non-committal answer simply games the question...it is refusing to take a position because the proposition makes one queasy or unsure of what they want to say if fear of reprisal was not a factor.
Is there a god that cares deeply about butt sex, alcohol use and abortions; but could not care less about starving children, AIDS epidemics, poverty or disproportionate distribution of resources and wealth across humanity?
Did this same hypothetical sociopath decide to create a universe that stretches for BILLIONS of light years in all directions to simply use 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the available space-time for absolutely nothing (no life, no 'chosen peoples' in other galaxies, no other anything?), and then place 10 special rules for living on a subset of a single population of a nondescript species of primate derived hominids?
NO, there is definitively NOT such an abomination - and those who profess to believe in such a monster simply will not admit that they do so out of misplaced familial loyalty/tradition (circumstantial acceptance of the beliefs of one's fore-bearers) or misplaced desire to see others suffer (and to gleefully celebrate such an eventuality with ghoulish anticipation bordering on the sexual energy of prepubescent little boys), sadly it is the latter more frequently than the former...just watch the gleam in their eyes when they talk about the hellfire that await the unbelievers...its sickening to behold, really quite disturbing truth be told. It is this very specific reaction and response from the true zealot believers - the rooting for torture of non-believers as a reward for their "belief" - that makes me confident in the proclamation that there is no such 'god' in existence.
As for other conceptions of a non-personal deity that does nothing? If they do nothing and have no power to intercede or change the course of events, what does it matter if they exist or not then?