If people stopped believing in Tink, she would just disappear - you showed that you believed in her by clapping your hands.
When everyone eventually stops believing in God (because of all the evidences and history and philosophy that are just disproving all religions left and right, thanks to the information explosion) will God disappear?
What if a plague wiped out 5 billion people and those who remained were atheists? Suppose those atheists made it a point to destroy every religious book that claimed to be "God's Word." and they had kids and raised them to be rational people like themselves...
Oh... I just can't go on.... It's too beautiful....
2007-03-20 08:10:32 · 8 answers · asked by The Burninator 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it is an isolated view.................
2007-03-20 08:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by i am 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"... and those who remained were atheists." Be careful what you wish for.
Maybe we could just get rid of the zealots. If we could convince them all to move to one area of the world, then adjust the orbit of one of those menacing asteroids that are always threatening us, to-- oops! Sorry. Must have miscalculated. Who would know?
Or suppose we discovered a gene that predisposes a person toward supernatural belief. Would there be a temptation to excise that gene from the genome? A targeting virus would be simpler and cheaper than more clinical therapies on reluctant subjects, and there wouldn't need to be massive "re-education" programs and other socially distateful events.
But what would we have become in the meantime, both in deploying such methods of GEN-ocide and in eliminating a variation without considering the reasons for its persistence and the unforseen consequences of its elimination. Surely we know that nothing ever occurs in a perfect vacuum. There would be other "side effects".
It would be better if it just happened, a random event, with no blood on anyone's hands. The universe solves our problem for us. The Universe - SOLVES - our - problem. Rather a disturbing thought.
Imagining the destruction of one's "enemies" can be cathartic, but imagining the realization can get terribly complicated. Do we just want them to "go away" (like gays or communists for a right-wing Christian)? Do we want them to suffer for their, uh, crimes, hmm, insan--, well, bad ideas? Do we want them to know how wrong they are? (Actually they probably wouldn't listen. We'd need to reconfigure their minds somehow to understand.) I can feel the ethical corrosion even as I think it through.
I'm afraid that making plans for Utopia is just as hazardous as it ever was, even if we've finally identified the correct "problem". Life teaches us we have to deal with the problems we face, even the aggravatingly pointless ones. "Eliminating" them doesn't work.
2007-03-22 14:01:10 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that there are stupid atheists too. Now, if there was a plague that would wipe out all the stupid people...
That would be beautiful.
2007-03-20 15:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by Kharm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your right! But G-d is even more like Peanut butter. As soon as its gone you can buy some more! For 5 dollars, I can save you from sin! Weeeee!!! And plus, order now and get 5 free jars of JIF peanut butter! Mmmmm!
2007-03-20 15:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Peanutbutter Goddess 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cannot destroy God, He will always be there to keep sending out His love!
2007-03-20 15:44:36 · answer #5 · answered by Gerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is like Everything... even like those that disbelieve in Him.
Can you not imagine a being that would imagine Himself non-existant? Can you not imagine a being that would try and disprove its own existance?
Haven't we all done this? Isn't that our nature? To prove or disprove the existance of anything and everything? To verify our own existance?
Hence I say... God is LIKE Everything...
Whether you want to believe this or not is, of course, your own choosing. But, in that choosing I say that even YOU are still LIKE God... Verifying your own existance by trying to proove or disprove anything and/or everything. ;-)
Peace be with you!
2007-03-20 15:12:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Keep the dream alive...;0)
2007-03-20 15:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah but Tink doesn't kill poeple.
God is more like Freddy.
2007-03-20 15:12:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋