"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." Gene Roddenberry
2007-11-09 11:52:04 · 33 answers · asked by Life goes on... 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unfortunately for Gene,
God is his Judge,
Gene will not be officiating at the judgment of God.
2007-11-09 12:02:10 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Gene was a very creative guy (big ST fan), but, like most SF authors, he was firmly in the grip of the illusion that man can master his environment. Ask the survivors of Katrina or the Indonesian tsunami if THEY think we're quite that capable.
The fault in his logic is that God did NOT create faulty humans. He created them with the capacity for one of Roddenberry's favorite choices -- love. Because only if love is a choice can it be real. Gene's idea of 'perfect' humans seems to be automatons who have no choice but to 'love' God, an idea he then put down in a number of story lines. Of course, in ST, the gods were always false gods, which is why they were coersive. But the statement doesn't surprise me: he obviously never understood how someone could genuinely love God because God loved him first, in spite of his choices.
2007-11-09 12:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by r_moulton76 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how can you people harp on "free will" and the assumption that god "knows your fate, predestined"? It contradicts itself.
I like that quote, i also like:
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
-John Adams, founding father
"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it, If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-Albert Einstein
But i guess they were idiots too, huh. . . .
If humans werent faulty they wouldnt be tempted and partake in the deadly sins, right?
2007-11-09 16:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is Gene Roddenberry your spirtural advisor?
2007-11-09 12:08:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is easy to see how someone could agree with his remark. It is written to encourage agreement is why. It is persuasive, in other words. Have you given some thought to God as an entity or concept? It is utterly beyond my ability or willingness to think I could understand such a thing. Imagine, thinking you can know God well enough to determine the traits of such a thing. I am fairly certain most people substitute Faith where good thinking might have taken them further. If you inject the whole thing with thinking you come to an immediate standstill. Only intuitive understanding can take us further into the realm of comprehension of such vast places. It is like peering into the Universe and wondering where it ends. How deep is the vastness of space - ? It is so vast we have to measure it with Time.
2007-11-09 13:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its interesting you quoted from gene roddenberry .i read that after his death his body was cremated and his wish was to be flown out into space and only in space was his ashes to be scattered .there was another man whos ashes were scattered with his in space his name was timothy leary .the guy the moody blues sung about in "the legend of a mind" .i think gene had more problem accepting the creation story as brought down by the bible then to doubt the all knowing all powerful God .
2007-11-09 12:13:38 · answer #6 · answered by greengrass44444 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me see if I understand.. Mr. StarTrek guy says that in order for God to exist, humans must be perfect.
And if we believe in God and since humans are created "faulty" then it's God's responsibility. Humans cannot be held responsible for criminal activity, for wars, for sins... Let's free everyone who is in jail, and close all the court systems down, because Mr. Roddenberry has determined where the cupability lies.
Yes, that buy really said it well.
2007-11-09 12:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Why is God blamed for having such great love as to give humans free choice. And according to the bible our first parents weren't created faulty, they became faulty of their own free will.
2007-11-09 12:08:20 · answer #8 · answered by enamel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL Mr. Roddenberry is a well known Humanist/Atheist... just because he has fame in his own line of work does not make him any more an authority of the subject than you or I. :)
2007-11-09 12:01:34 · answer #9 · answered by ForeverSet 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all God did not make humans faulty, humans made humans faulty. God doesn't force people to worship him, he created us free will/moral beings. We make our own decisions, the thing is will it be the right one.
2007-11-09 12:29:45 · answer #10 · answered by DeVon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think God makes mistakes. He knew from the beginning that it would end up like this. I as a human though...don't have the answers. Ask God.
2007-11-09 12:08:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋