Comments on: FAQ: What if you’re wrong, and God does exist?

By: zen

zen — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:24:01 +0000

I know that this was made a long time ago but i just found it and though i needed to post.
1. There is a God and only 1 God
2. He cares for us. I mean if you created some thing wouldnt you care for it.
3. God judges us on how we lived our lives and if we lived by the ten commandments. Also if you dont know the ten commandments then i suggest you read up on things like that befor bashing other religions.
4. Science has always been against religion.

By: vjack

vjack — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:16:58 +0000

If we were to discover that some sort of god did in fact exist, it is likely that it would bear little resemblance to the god in which the Christians believe. I say this simply because the Christian concept of god is a logical impossibility with irreconcilable properties.

By: Pedro Timóteo

Pedro Timóteo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:18:57 +0000

Thanks for the compliments.
You may also notice that the “good god” in the post is of undefined gender, while the “evil god” is most definitely a “he”. This is intentional. Typically, evil gods — whether they’re Yahweh, Allah, the Aztec sun god, or a virgin-eating volcano god — are always male.

By: TW

TW — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:35:40 +0000

Excellent post - well said.

The only moral thing to do in the presence of such a monster, as he condemned and damned us for having the morality he lacks, would be to spit in his face, as a final act of defiance.

I couldn’t have put it better myself! This is something which astounds me about theists (especially the crazy ones on the net), in that they portray their deity as a vengeful, hateful, cruel dictator who will condemn someone to eternity in torment for doing something the omniscient deity predicted would happen. Strikes me as being pretty mad.

I would hope that, faced with an evil dictator like this I too would be prepared to do the right thing.

By: heather

heather — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:35:18 +0000

Really well put.
This point of view is so unassailably logical that it’s always hard to understand why everybody doesn’t see it.

By: Jey

Jey — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:16:16 +0000

The traditional definition of god does not meet the rules of coherence at a very basic level.

The traditional definition is - “God is that being than which none greater can be conceived” or “God is a being than which none greater is possible”. (Other terms are used in formulating definitions, in a way that amounts to the same or a very similar concept of greatness - “Maximality”, “Perfection”, “Supreme”, …).

These definitions are nonsense because greatness has a quantitative as well as a qualitative meaning.
This means that the traditional definition of god is similar to saying, “A number than which none greater can be conceived” or “A number than which none greater is possible”.

This quantitative aspect is hinted at in the “religions of the book”. They have god referring to himself as “We” and “Us”. In the Christian religion there is even a “mathematics of god” to explain the “Three Personal God”: 1 = 1 * 1 * 1. (There are other ways of understanding the “royal we” but my argument still stands).

Someone may argue that god has infinite greatness but it turns out that, mathematically speaking, infinities have different sizes!

Therefore the traditional definition of god refers to that which does not and cannot exist.