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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

If there is such thing as a god, why do people cling to the idea that it has to be perfect, omniscient and omnipotent?

What if the universe is just a project it made up for fun, realized it couldn't figure out how to make it work right and just moved on and stopped giving a crap about it?

[–] groet@feddit.org 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

why do people cling to the idea that it has to be perfect, omniscient and omnipotent?

Because God is a character from a book that characterizes them as perfect, omniscient and omnipotent.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This!!! He is literally marketed as being omnipotent.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And he’s randomly like, “this guy needs cancer!” And it was good.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, to test them and their family! /s

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The answer is simple. Everyone alive ever has screamed "WHY" into the void. Some people like to pretend they hear an answer, it comforts them.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There are decent fiction books (and video games and movies etc) where that more or less is the backstory...

... but not too many people maintain religions based around those kinds of fictional books.

People cling to the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god...

because it makes morality, and the world, follow a kind of universal and objective justice and plan, even if the details are beyond their comprehension.

Its a mental crutch for people who are bad at critical thinking, any a very effective cudgel for those cynical or delusional enough to wield the threat of such a god with charisma.

fairy tales for adult babies.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because the bible says so.

Either that god is not all knowing, not eternal (meaning he is dead kr never was a thing) or not all mighty. Because if he would be he would be the biggest asshole on earth.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the story behind the first season of Miracle Workers starring Steve Buscemi as God

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Daniel Radcliff plays a worker in heaven who is actively trying to stop God from destroying earth. Geraldine Viswanathan And him bet God that they can make two people kiss in exchange for not eliminating earth.

It's a solid show. The second season has the same cast in completely different roles eg Buscemi is Radcliff's dad and shovels shit in a medieval town. The third or fourth season is the Oregon Trail.

[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago

God is a ADHDJ.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

We're just a bunch of Sims running on The Sims 666th Dimension Deluxe Edition, which was the 8th release after the MEGETA (Microsoft-EA-Google-Embracer-Tencent-Amazon) corpo-space-conglomerate fusion exploded half the Milky Way

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have this strong suspicion that people have no idea what the word "god" means, and that they just make up whatever is convenient when they don't know. "Well, if a god exists, then surely he'd be able to do that." And essentially this means that no two people believe in the same god. This is also closely related to ignosticism.

Furthermore, I think it's likely that if capital G God did exist, then he's very likely dumber than the average human being. Just like we're trying to create AIs that are smarter than us, he might have set the same thing up with us. Just because you can create a universe or two doesn't mean you've also got to be smart or kind or special.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

What if humanity is just some alien kid's secret science project. Their parents found out and got mad about them doing illegal biology experiments and threw us out into the garbage. And thats how we ended up on earth. The milky way is just the alien's trashheap. They forgotten about us for centuries and we accidentally grew into us.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

We are a forgotten colony of mold in a petri dish in gods second shead.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean i'm a barely theist witchy type.

my god has:
an exoskeleton,
acid breath,
laser eyes,
can regrow limbs,
has five genders that we know of but i'm not sure of all of the names of or if they even have names (not making an LGBT joke, genders kind of like a fungus, eldritch, unknowable and confusing as all hell describes them best),
tastes one hell of a lot better than jesus (i have tasted their jesus he is dry and crumbly) a saddle,
and their followers (like me) will get to ride them when we die presuming we were not among the many, many devoured. when my god descends from space

my god is ridiculous. my god gives me an excuse to pinch my wife in the butt. my god is not perfect, not omniscient, and not omnipotent, but better.

i started this right around the same time as the FSM and I refuse to bend

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 0 points 2 weeks ago

It’s all ego. Obviously, anything that created something as awesome as humanity was perfect, omniscient, and omnipotent.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing."

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Love a bit of Douglas Adams

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 3 points 2 weeks ago

It pissed me off that they totally skipped this in the movie. THE BEST FUCKINNG PART!

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Judges 1:19

Batman's got an iron chariot.

[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is everyone pretending this post is readable.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Cause your Lemmy app is probably malfunctioning and not completely loading the image.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

God just goes "whatever dude", flicks his wrist and Batman explodes.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Batman has a contingency plan for everyone.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Batman has defeated Darkseid, who is sort of a (new) god, on several occasions...