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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.
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One thing I will never understand is how people can believe that there is an all-knowing, all-powerful being who created the universe, and wields supreme authority over everything the universe encompasses, and yet simultaneously believe that he'll take the time to listen to your petty bullshit and wiggle his fingers to get you a new car, or make sure your favorite team wins the superbowl. Surely, if he's so overwhelmingly powerful, the pleas and devotion of us mere mortals would be completely inconsequential to him. So do Christians believe he's omniscient and omnipotent, but also incredibly insecure?
I don't believe in omnipotent or omniscient gods, only normal ones, but I'll bite your hypothetical.
An omniscient god would necessarily have a perfect sense of empathy. They would know what everyone is feeling. And to know a feeling is to feel it, so they would feel every feeling in the world, at full intensity. Obviously such a being would need to be all emotionally resilient as well as all knowing. But they would care for the problems of mortals, because they would feel what mortals do. Perhaps in such a hypothetical, prayers are simply a person attaching a feeling of urgency to their needs, in hope that their god will feel this urgency too and respond.
But of course, I believe in normal gods, so this is all just an intellectual exercise to me.