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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why is a god simply being capable of lying not worth following? If he's capable and chooses not to, isn't that a better god than one who can't lie?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Well this god installed thirteen billion years of red-shifted light from the furthest visible stars. Last Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but he did though. Multiple times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about a specific god, just the general concepts of gods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It always annoys me how hard it is for me to make people understand this. I often debate the concept of spirituality and Gods in general, and people (in the US) always reply with some response like 'but catholic church bad.' Which, sure, I'm not disagreeing, but is such a narrow viewpoint and doesn't exactly have anything to do with the possibility of a God or Gods existing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If God is to be regarded as an authority figure, punishes you for telling lies, and can himself lie, God is to be trusted no more than the police.

In fact, we should be challenging God like we do with the police.

Which kind of explains a lot about this country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Being able to lie doesn't make you a liar or untrustworthy. Lying does.