Comments on: The Deeply Unsatisfying Theory of a Judeo-Christian God

By: Elliott

Elliott — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:20:44 +0000

Well Rob, I get that question a lot. I’d say there are a few reasons why I keep writing, and why the lack of god is an important topic for discussion:

1) Given the history of the human race, and its manifest propensity to believe in the supernatural and/or god(s), the existence of god is an important question that all humans need to grapple with.
2) I’m not sure there isn’t a god…yet. I’m obviously pretty certain that there isn’t one. Almost positive, in fact. But in order to re-build my world model around a different framework, it’s gonna take a lot of hard work. To be fully confident about anything, you have to examine the issue very closely…
3) …and that’s kinda the point of this blog: to lay out my logic as this transformation happens. Writing it all down and thinking critically about it is part of the process of coming to terms with my atheism. I wanted to chronicle the process.

Some people may be able to dismiss the issue with a simple “there is no god,” but I’m not there yet. As little as I like to admit it, I’m still rehearsing the arguments.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:59:22 +0000

Why are you wasting your time talking about a nonexistent god? Life’s short and futile, with no promise of an afterlife. This post and this comment is an exercise in inefficiency.

I have learned not to hate that which doesn’t exist…just move on already.

By: BrianM

BrianM — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:28:43 +0000

Not to forget that Jesus is ready to see the vast majority of us burn. We are unworthy of him, no? That seems like the traditional power relationship is fully in place to me.

By: BrianM

BrianM — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:27:42 +0000

Yet, Wes…how do you justify your argument that the God you thank does exist? A warm and fuzzy feeling “in the heart”? Certainly not from reading the Bible? Just because you “feel” it must be so?

There is certainly more justification for a brutal “God Hates Us All” Jehovah in the Bible than there is for the doctrines of the declining liberal churches.

By: Wes Ellis

Wes Ellis — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:28:12 +0000

I don’t think the god your describing is the only other option… thank God for that.

Sounds like you’ve been reading the Bible with a lot of my conservative friends.

By: Wes Ellis

Wes Ellis — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:25:59 +0000

I can’t swallow that god either…

I think that in Jesus our whole conception of what power and authority are turned upside down.

By: Ryan O'Brien

Ryan O'Brien — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:27:07 +0000

My take on the Bible boils down to three possibilities:

a) God is insane;
b) The authors of the Bible were insane;
c) The Bible is a sanity test to see if you can pick out the sane parts from the crazy parts.

Or all of the above.