It’s God’s Right!

[Ian David]

It’s God’s Right!

Remember all those posts about God being a douchebag? I’ve been discussing God with a friend of mine who suggested the following argument (which I will probably muddle, since I’m summarizing from memory). I’d love to hear your responses! http://www.godlessgirl.com/2009/06/gods-justice-is-anti-american/

So what if God is an asshole? http://www.humanismbyjoe.com/Violence_and_God.htm

Even if God did order the slaughter of humans in the Old Testament, condone slavery, and send souls to everlasting torture in hell… that’s totally within his rights! After all, if this truly is an infinite being in size, power, and so forth, God is not subject to the morality he gave humankind. Nor does it truly matter if we live or die because we’re just specks–less than specks–to his infinite All. Our souls are like eternal beings; the body doesn’t matter if it’s all about eternity, so the suffering we feel on earth and the resentment for experiencing it is meaningless in the face of the eternal life of the soul and the ultimate power and all-knowing will of God.

I may have sped through her ideas, but do you get the gist of what she’s saying? And what would you say in response to this sort of argument? Does God get a free pass because he’s just so damn big? Should we really have a problem with an all-powerful deity that does whatever it wants with its creation?



More:
http://www.godlessgirl.com/2009/08/its-gods-right/

[laconicsax]

1. Doesn't that guy in the pic know that God put the stars there for astrology?

Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

[trotsky]

2. To be fair...

it's a perfectly logical position that also negates everything contradictory, putrid, or horrific in the bible. God is a mean, capricious bastard who doesn't give a fuck and will turn around and smite you without even thinking about it.

If that's the god they want to believe in and worship, good luck. I guess the one weakness in the position is that it doesn't matter one bit whether you kiss his ass or not - he's gonna be an asshole to everyone.

[MrModerate]

3. Just god, unjust god, wicked god, goofy god, it hardly matters.

In the reality-based universe there's no room for any of them.