If all human minds were genetically altered to adopt atheism, what would happen to god?

Question

You have to be willing to indulge this possibility to answer this question, so if you're incapable of "what if" thinking, please move on to the next question.

I find the idea interesting because if god truly allows people free will to believe or not believe in him, this allows for at least the POSSIBILITY of all people not believing, and then what would be the point in god's existence? Or the Earth's? Would a planet that rejected it's creator still merit existence in the creator's eyes?

Answer 1

god would go the way of all the other gods we have left behind

Answer 2

That's a very good question and there is a Gnostic theory to this.

First, try to accept that there is a God Almighty and a Devil. God allowed the Devil to make or corrupt this world making flesh dependent on evil for survival - you can't survive without destroying something else living. Rules would be put in place to encourage people to see the right way of living - 10 simple commandments. They're simple enough and all are good to obey but they feel unnatural to us.

Our craving to survive, breed and gain distracts us from those commandments. Rather than seeing those commandments as wise advice they are increasingly viewed as irritating obstacles.
Supposedly "Christian" leaders like George W. Bush and Tony Blair go to war which will kill hundreds of thousands of people when it really could have been dealt with by asassination. So right at the top of the world's political heirarchy, God is being abandoned. All the way down the ladder, God is being abandoned.

When we abandon him completely. Evil wins the world and it ends immediately. Game Over.

Atheists are targetting the faithful here on Y!A as much as anywhere. British Airways refuses to allow it's staff to wear crosses to bear witness to their faith.

If others faith offends you, you have too much anger and free time on your hands.

Your question - of which there were many:

"If all human minds were genetically altered to adopt atheism, what would happen to god?"

Nothing would happen to God, he would remain Almighty and the human race would be a boring mess of conformity.

"I find the idea interesting because if god truly allows people free will to believe or not believe in him, this allows for at least the POSSIBILITY of all people not believing, and then what would be the point in god's existence?"

You're presuming that God exist's for us rather than: if he exists, why are we here and surely then we exist for him? So if we don't believe in him but our purpose requires at least one of us to believe in him. We would then have no purpose to exist and if God controls our existence we may have made urself obselete.

"Or the Earth's?"

No point.

"Would a planet that rejected it's creator still merit existence in the creator's eyes?"

I'd say no.

My question would be:

What value is there to us when we can't even respect the being that created us all and treat each other and our world and every species in it so cruelly? The case for the prosecution could stop at War alone but lets throw in child abuse, torture, lies, slavery, drugs, prostitution, bullying, racism.

Name one other species on this planet which has a capacity for evil that we do? None.

If you were God would you leave us to carry on getting worse? and believe me we are getting worse...

It is a good question you asked and we can't answer it. The best we can do is think about it and think hard , before it's too late.

Answer 3

to take the first line of your question "if all human minds were genetically altered to adopt atheism, what would happen to god?"
He/she would no longer exist. since the possibility of "god" doesn't
exist in the newly, genetically created people, the existence of a god would be foreign to them, an unknowned, something that by the altered individuals, would not, and could not understand.
but now you ask about the creator in the same question........
interesting..... all religious texts allow for the freedom of free will.
and it is left to everyone personal interpreting.
the main thing is you got to believe in one or the other there is no on the fence sitting, it , for all intents and purposes, relies on faith, hope,and the willingest to believe in what you find valuable
to your life.

Answer 4

Genetically altered belief into atheism would mean that such total non-belief in God would be God's will, and since GOD is the architect of everything, it would lead me to the conclusion that God wants his entire creation in hell. This makes me further conclude that GOD loves suffering and pain.... and planned this all well in advance....from the instant in the very beginning when he thought about creating...he thought at that same instant that he would consign his entire creation to an eternity of pain in hell...by a genetic alteration...by a scientist who probably started out by straying believers to the realm of logic and eventually got the whole of creation onboard. Thus a further conclusion would be, that this is a punishment for Believers allowing science to flourish to the point that belief can be altered by Genetics.

Why would God care anyway, since he could always create a new batch of souls any time he wanted to fill heaven again? Maybe this is a God who is so fickle, he tires of heavenly hosts singing in his ears and longs for the screams from hell to prevail, and so after every few bouts of creativy on his part he goes crazy and flip flops and sends all one way or the other.... like a heavenly Las Vegas gamble where your soul might end up. Serves us all right for loving such a GOD...May we BURN in Hell... Long Live Genetics, Science, God, Hell, ...and Atheistic Scientists! I can't wait to be lounging at a bar in hell having a drink of boiling piss, while the devil shoves another pineapple up my anus, and toast the scientist who altered man's genes so we could all be there to please and satisfy our creator's blood lust and thirst for torture. He even had his son Crucified on a cross.. not a man to be trifled with at all. In that hell all souls would then have God's genes...Conclusion....GOD is the DEVIL !

PS
I just missed answering your other question about God rewarding Scientists for discovering he exists..here is my answer..lol.

Definitely! God will award them the Nobel Prize of Heaven and give each scientist 200 Virgins to make love to all day long, just to stop them turning their inquisitive, scientific minds to the complex task of now discovering who created God!!!
WHAT???
Surely if this complex world must have a designer, as you believers claim, then the complex mind that designed it should have a designer too! Or is it that you cannot accept this universe just coming into being, and always existing without a creator, but your mind can do the same gymnastics when it comes to believing that the even more complex entity that created it, can just BE, and should not himself have a creator? How do you believers justify that illogical stretch?
But definitely I want the Nobel Prize of heaven...just for the virgins...it would save me becoming a muslim suicide bomber just to get 72, and my name would be emblazoned across Heaven and Hell for all Eternity....and I'd also get to meet Jesus's GRANDFATHER, the creator of God. WOW !

Answer 5

God would not cease to exist just because no one believed in Him. And if no one believed in God, He is not going to think, 'oh, well there's no point to Me being here'. He's all about having relationship with us and He would make that possible. (Genetics will not stop God, He wrote the book on genetics).

In the current situation without genetic modification, unbelievers are deliberately and proudly declaring (not necessarily out loud) that their unbelief in God to be superior to what God their creator tells them. That seems like that proud thinking could be cause to wipe someone out. Yet, in God's eyes a person who doesn't believe still merits existence. God doesn't blot out unbelievers, He gives them opportunities to believe.

Answer 6

The first part of your question is somewhat bogus because it implies that belief in a God could somehow be genetically controlled. That's simply not possible.

As for the rest, it's possible that belief in God could disappear. It's also possible that it could be regained at some point in the future. It takes only one believer to start a movement, so even if belief in a God disappears, it could return. No really big deal there.

Answer 7

I think "God" may be different for everyone (just look at all the different religion beliefs out there across the world!) and some people don't believe he actually exists, that he is like a figment I guess? If everyone became atheist, no one would speak of God, and thus, through the generations, nobody would know who He is. Eventually, God himself would disappear. And the only way of knowing whether he would still be there or not is to wait until your own Judgement Day and see what's awaiting you.

Answer 8

our minds arent altered to believe in being an atheist. the world teaches the mind to become one. It is a natural instinct that everyone knows that God exists, it's just whether or not they actually believe it fully. When any man gets frightened enough or scared enough for his own life or something/someone that is of very much valuable to him, he will pray to God. it's a natural instinct.

but to answer your question in the 'what if' wording, no, the planet would no longer exist, for God would no longer be in the world for He had been rejected. He would kill off the earth just like He's going to with the tribulation. Once Christ comes back, there will be no more believers on earth (excluding the 144,000 chosen) and God will release His wrath.

Answer 9

in case you have self assurance God created all human beings, then sure ! IT DID create Atheists and atheism . God isn't in basic terms a advantageous uncle; She is likewise an earthquake; What else even nevertheless it could make rain ?

Answer 10

"Would a planet that rejected it's creator still merit existence in the creator's eyes?"
i'd have to say probably not, god's a pretty jealous person. he actually says that in the bible lol.

anyway, i dont see why people NEED a divine purpose so badly. that's what keeps some people going. if everyone suddenly became an atheist, the world (if there is actually no god and/or god did not level his wrath upon it) would be a far better place. imagine how many wars and senseless acts of terrorism would no longer happen!

addendum: i just have to say i love the answers that pretty much go like: "god loves us so much that he would kill us all in a heartbeat if we all stopped believing in him"... hi-friggin-larious!

Answer 11

God is a concept. A formless thing. God casts no shadow. He's real but only in the minds of weakened people. If these weakened people were suddenly bereft of their God, they would be weakened further. Religion is a drug....no, it's deeper than a drug. It's a form of logic, let's call it pseudo-logic. Pseudo-logic helps weakened people live their otherwise meaningless lives. Like a pair of crutches for a cripple, it gives them a means to live their attenuated lives. A weak minded person without religion is like a cripple without crutches - they can only drag themselves along the ground being cursed and spat upon by their able bodied fellows.