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My last post was a bit rash because I don't really know what I'm talking about. Denying the objective existence of everything is mentally taxing. So let's assume that existence exists.
Let's also assume that the divine exists. I mean, it might.
So here's my personal problem with religion. I think it's fine if other people are religious, it's not like I know any better than they do, but I've never understood it when people are able to say anything with confidence ABOUT the divine.
For example, the Christians have the Bible. Believers can take it with a grain of salt or not, but usually even the most liberal Christians believe that the God portrayed in the Bible is real, and base this God on the Bible's description. Since we know that the Bible was written by human beings, whether or not they were divinely inspired, this description comes from the very beings that God has created in his image. To write about God with certainty, these folks had to have known what God was.
If God is perfect and infallible, omniscient and omnipotent, able to listen to millions of prayers at once, and so on, and people are so imperfect that they're always getting sick and dying and doing stupid things to the point that God had to exterminate them once to teach them a lesson, why would the human brain/soul be able to perceive God? It seems that in order to know what God is, a person would also have to be infallible, even perfect. Obviously, people are not. Why would God allow himself to be understandable? It just seems unlikely to me.
The Koran is a different story because supposedly it is the ACTUAL word of God, so if you believe that, not much I can say about that.
Of course, even if we can understand God, why doesn't anyone ask the question of what came before God? What created God?
I mean, this is a problem with science too. What came before the Big Bang? Another Big Bang? Then what was before that? How did matter happen?
Organized religion assumes that God is understandable. I am just surprised that so many people believe this.
Let's also assume that the divine exists. I mean, it might.
So here's my personal problem with religion. I think it's fine if other people are religious, it's not like I know any better than they do, but I've never understood it when people are able to say anything with confidence ABOUT the divine.
For example, the Christians have the Bible. Believers can take it with a grain of salt or not, but usually even the most liberal Christians believe that the God portrayed in the Bible is real, and base this God on the Bible's description. Since we know that the Bible was written by human beings, whether or not they were divinely inspired, this description comes from the very beings that God has created in his image. To write about God with certainty, these folks had to have known what God was.
If God is perfect and infallible, omniscient and omnipotent, able to listen to millions of prayers at once, and so on, and people are so imperfect that they're always getting sick and dying and doing stupid things to the point that God had to exterminate them once to teach them a lesson, why would the human brain/soul be able to perceive God? It seems that in order to know what God is, a person would also have to be infallible, even perfect. Obviously, people are not. Why would God allow himself to be understandable? It just seems unlikely to me.
The Koran is a different story because supposedly it is the ACTUAL word of God, so if you believe that, not much I can say about that.
Of course, even if we can understand God, why doesn't anyone ask the question of what came before God? What created God?
I mean, this is a problem with science too. What came before the Big Bang? Another Big Bang? Then what was before that? How did matter happen?
Organized religion assumes that God is understandable. I am just surprised that so many people believe this.