A "What if" question directed to my Atheist & Agonistic friends ?

Question

If you're a Theist, do NOT answer this.
---I'm a Deist by the way :-)
Anyway, here's the question:
What if there was really a god, and that you're Him/Her:
1- Would you reveal yourself to people so that they believe?
2- Where would you send people to after death? If your answer is heaven, how about the very bad people (Adolph Hitler, serial killers, child molesters, etc) how would you deal with them? Would you burn them? How about those who worship other gods?
3- Would you allow pain and suffering in the world? Why(not)?
4- Would you give people a book of morals, or tell them to be moral by themselves? Would there be any restrictions (If you sent book)?
5- What would your name be?
6- Would you divinely interfere to stop Bush from becoming president, and put a better one?

So sorry for the misspelling
----Agnostic
:-)

Answer 1

1 - Absolutely. I wouldn't put up with all this misinterpretation of me and what I want out of people. I'd interact people on a daily basis and make sure they knew what I expected from them.

2 - I think I'd promote reincarnation ... if someone lived as good of a life as they were capable of, they'd go to heaven. If not, they'd be reincarnated into someone else (based on how bad they were) and be given a chance to try again.

3 - I'd allow people to experience the direct consequences of their own actions, but none of this "everyone suffers because of one person's mistake" nonsense.

4 - No, I wouldn't give people a book, because I'd be interacting with them on a daily basis and teaching them about morality (because obviously there are some people who can't be moral without a god telling them to be).

5 - Everyone could just call me Kathryn. No need for a fancy-shmancy title.

6 - Like I said, people have to suffer the direct consequences of their own actions!!!!!

Answer 2

1- I have revealed myself in the laws of physics and nature

2- After death all the answers to all of the questions in the universe would be answered and a different and possibly more challenging existence would begin. Sadists and child molesters would be at the whim of my imagination and all of the horrors I could concieve for them for 100 years.

3- If there is no pain or suffering then how would you learn perserverance and empathy.

4- I would send a Holy Pamplet with these few words; Observe, learn, and fight bravely.

5- Thor, of course.

6- I would punish any people who allowed themselves to be lorded over by anyone who had not proven themselves worthy in actual combat.

Answer 3

I would not interfere at all or reveal myself, or else it would disrup the natural evolution of human society. I would let the humans govern themselves. I wouldn't be so vane as to need worship. After people died, I'd send them back to Earth, like reincarnation. An infinite afterlife would be pointless. As for the bad people, they deserve to be punished by the other humans, because that is who they hurt. I wouldn't have the right to punish anyone. Especially not my own creations. If they did something I disapproved of, that would be MY FAULT AND NOT THEIRS considering I'm the one who designed them. The only way I'd step in is if a comet or something was going to wipe out the planet and the humans were unable to stop it themselves. Even then though, I'd make sure I never revealed myself.

Answer 4

Too many questions... LOL! I'd definitely allow pain and suffering because people need to know how to handle conflict and pain and suffering teaches that. I'd let people be moral on their own because I also gave them a conscience and intelligence to figure it out.

And I would have interfered to stop Bush from bein re-elected president. I would have given him the first run but after he ruined the country with brainwashing and sent thousands to their deaths for a vain war that should never have started, I would have definitely had a little deity to president chat before he could be re-elected.

Answer 5

1. Maybe.
2. I would go for reincarnation. I would allow people to believe whatever they chose. If they were bad I would reincarnate them into an ugly person or a mole.
3. Yes. Without pain and suffering you can't know true joy and happiness.
4. No. People will do what they want.
5. You wouldn't be able to pronounce it, it would be a symbol.
6. If I were God, there would be no crazy Christian republicans to vote him in!

Answer 6

1. No. I wouldn't want recognition... if I have the knowledge that I have now about what religion does to the world, then I'd prefer to just take care of things from afar.
2. I wouldn't 'send' people anywhere. They'd simply not exist anymore. Everyone gets equal treatment... they just don't know about it.
3. I don't think it's possible to conceive a world where pain and suffering aren't present.
4. I wouldn't tell the people anything.
5. Whatever they decided to name me, as it would be irrelevant.
6. ...you bet I would. He's horrible.

Answer 7

I must point out that I am an Agnostic as well as a Freethinker and a Humanist and I am insulted because you misspelled Agnostic :-). Of course I'm just kidding with you. But to answer your question I would make my presence felt and people would know that I exist. And the bad people would be dealt with accordingly. Anyway I wouldn't care about whether or not people believed in me or worshipped me or not. I would care more about how people are behaving and acting in this world. it's cool dude I was just joking with you. My feelings aren't hurt trust me on this one rotflmao.

Answer 8

1 - I wouldn't care if they believed in me anymore than I now care whether the bacteria in my stomach believe in me.

2 - I wouldn't have created evil in the first place.

3 - No. Because assuming I'm an omnipotent being, I ought to be able to accomplish anything without the aid of pain and suffering.

4 - Absolute rules with no explanation as to why they are rules? No. Advice? Maybe. If I did, then it would be written by me, and I would give evidence of that fact outside of the book itself. But, then again, it wouldn't be necessary without suffering in the world, would it?

5 - Why have a name?

6 - No suffering, hence there would be no Bush as we know him.

Answer 9

1) Yes
2) Limbo
3) Yes, so that people learn.
4) Tell them to be moral by themselves, humans naturally want to do things that are considered "good" by society.
5) Grace
6) Nope. There have have been and are a lot of other leaders that are much worse.

I would rather be like a Deistic god, one who just observes.

Answer 10

1. No I would want to see my creation grow naturally.

2. I wouldnt send them any where just reincarnate into different circumstances and see how they behave. And to your point of "bad people" their are no bad people just people. People behave the way they do because thats natural to them.
3. Yes. Because pain is part of life and with out pain would you recognize pleasure.
4.No Book only what they make
5. Makaka
6. No I like Bush he believes in me :)