No Stupid Questions

Because god is a delusion used as a means of social control and as an excuse for violence.

God has emotions because it is created in man's image. It's pure projection sold through propaganda to keep the weak, scared, and stupid under the thumb of the kind of men who wish to rule.

Starts with:
"Not to get into a debate."

Continues with:
" If God is so omnipotent"...

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So first, asking religious questions on the Fediverse is a fool's errand, but that aside: Why not? Hell, if anything it'd be the other way around: An all-powerful being without emotion wouldn't create anything, because they wouldn't gain anything from doing so. Any creation by an omnipotent being would have to be an emotional affair.

Because it's nonsense created by humans. Humans came up with these stories, of course they anthropomorphized their deity.

There is no god.

I'm not religious. But I'm pretty sure they would say that we are created in his image.

So, if we have emotions. I don't think it's beyond reason that god might have them as well.

And holy shit these comments are insufferable. This isnt about your personal vendetta against religion, just answer the god damn question.

All written accounts of God are produced by humans for an audience of other humans.

In the same way that we might describe a storm cloud as "angry" or a sunny day as "cheerful", one might apply emotional descriptors to an omnipotent divine force in order to personify an impersonal and abstract entity.

Past that, assuming you believe that a divine being is above humanity, why wouldn't they have emotions? Emotions are a feature of sentience and God is supposed to be a super-sentient creature. If anything, it would experience these emotions more intensely and intricately than its creations. The human rage of a shout or the despair of a cry becomes the earth-splitting eruption of a volcano or the suffocating deluge of a flood.

At the same time, it is the overwhelming longing for companionship that drives a God to form life from the void of space. The intense joy in the creative act leads this fundamental superhuman force to tirelessly build an entire universe. The deep and profound pride and love which brings them among their creations clothed in their own form, willing to endure the humiliation of this avatar form in order to enlighten and elevate their divine progeny to their own level.

Absent these primal emotional urges, why would a God choose to be a God at all, and not simply languish within the darkness for eternity, content to the echoing silence of dead space?

Any omnipotent being must be capable of feeling emotions, otherwise that would be a thing they can't do, making them not omnipotent.

If a deity like the Judeo Christian god is real, the reason they have emotion is we have emotion so early people would tie their emotions to them and think they have it as well. Something bad happens and it has to be god being angry and punishing them, because that was the only explanation they had.

As St George the Carlin asked, if God is all powerful, why does he need money?

Or maybe it's the other way round: We have emotions because God has emotions (not to get into a debate)

The main idea is that books like Bible and Quran were sent to humanity so they are made for humans of the time.

The "anger" isn't supposed to be a literal anger, just how humans identify what happened.

For example most verses about wrath follow with curse or punishment etc, so maybe "wrath" is just what humans call it when God curses or punishes people; and it's not a literal feeling of anger.

There was a similar debate with how some verses say God heard/saw "humans were doing [insert thing]..." etc in the books.

Which of the 3000 gods are you referring to?

Having power over somebody does not exclude you from having emotions. Superman is nearly invincible and a great guy who always does the right thing; but his feelings can still get hurt if people are mean to him, and he still gets angry when people are cruel to each other, such as a human murdering another human. God would be above a superhero, but the same principle applies.

If you are God, the point of creating humanity is because you're alone, and want to love and be loved. If you spent a lot of time and effort to raise your kids and they grew up to hate you for no discernible reason and did terrible things just to act the opposite of how you raised them to be, you'd be pissed too. Do I have "power" over my kids? I guess. I'm bigger than them and even if they're adults, you can always pull out a .22 and shoot them if they don't obey. But that doesn't solve anything and it's not very loving is it? I want to raise my kids to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do, but also because it benefits us all to act that way reliably, and makes us all happier.

If everyone obeys God just because they have to fall in line or die/be directly punished every time, that defeats the point of making humanity because they won't love you. Yet maybe it would be necessary to step in if they're harmful enough to the rest of humanity, hence the smiting. But most religions have an idea that God is trying to move us past the point where he has to step in, or has already stepped back permanently. Maybe God punishes evil after death to facilitate us getting our act together. Or perhaps he simply rewards the good and doesn't reward the evil. Maybe he experimented a little in the past as to what actually works. Maybe he knew he was justified to punish evil, but didn't realize the toll it would take on him by hurting your own children until it happened, and that's why he doesn't do it anymore.

Don't @ me in the comments criticizing some specific version of God you have in your head. There's a million different religions that say a million different things. This is theoretical, answering OP's question.

Or vanity. "I'm gonna need y'all to show up once a week to tell me how awesome I am"

IQ =/= EQ

Well, the obvious answer is: if God is so much greater than humans, how would we know? If you’re talking about the Hebrew god from the Christian Bible / Jewish Scriptures, you’re seeing the depiction of God as told through the lens of humans, who often try to be telling other humans about god using the limited vocabulary and imagery available.

God is depicted as being powerful enough that a human not being fully aligned with God but being in God’s presence would lead to annihilation, just like a human approaching the sun would be destroyed — not because the sun was angry, just because of its nature compared to ours.

On the flip side of that, for the biblical God, humans are made in God’s image, which means the species as a whole would reflect God’s character (including the bit about wanting to be the ones fully in control).

Within the context of a story understood to be fiction:

Smiting and wrath are actions. They don't require emotions exactly. Break the rules, get punished. Fork around on a ladder, find out how fast the ground moves. Not because the ladder is angry, but because you forked up.

Being "upset" could simply be people writing about their own understanding of God. Remember it was all written by people. And not like they were copying words as God literally dictated them. But through "revelation". They were "given" "understanding". As in the ideas kind of miraculously kind of popped onto their heads. So it's all limited to what they could comprehend.

Humans anthropomorphize pretty much everything around us with varying levels of accuracy. I'm fairly certain that my dog and cat feel anger and love in a very similar way to the way I do. I'm pretty sure plants really don't, but they might a little bit more than a storm cloud. However you apply that to your spirituality or your perception of that of others is going to be a highly personal experience for you.

Religion is a primitive means of governance. Check out the Books of Laws in the Old Testament. This is literal civil code for the time lightly veiled as something mystical.

The problem is, the bigger a population becomes, the less wieldy religion becomes as a means of governance. It’s why cults work but the state of Iran (as one example) is rife with dissension and horrible enforcement laws. Too many people for stable governance via religion. Factions, insurgents, defectors will abound.

Humans really want to have a reason for things. Any reason, even one that's wrong, is better than no reason. Some things have reasons that are only discoverable after centuries of investigation, but we demands reasons now.

Because we created god in our image

Also why did he choose to be a doctor of all jobs?

Because many people would rather believe that someone is in charge of natural disasters and suffering. Some take it further as a pretense for convincing their peers to remove competitors for resources.

Because it’s God’s nature? Sorry, but this seems like a pretty weak gotcha. The “Can God create a stone that he himself cannot lift?” is much better. This one is like asking “Why, if electrons present particle characteristics, do we don’t know (precisely) where an electron is at any given time?”. It’s just their nature, there is no reason behind it.

It's a little like when a mediocre screenwriter tries to write a character who is supposedly a genius.

Because the bible was written by humans. Just like how most aliens in movies have humanoid characteristics, people usually create things in their image.

Who told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?

Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It's people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn't in God, it's in God's self-appointed biographers.