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Earthseed
TLDR; I'm vehemently agnostic.
I believe that if there is a "God" entity, that it is incomprehensible and not worth attempting to understand.
I also don't believe in an anthropocentric "God", in that "God" doesn't inherently value nor not value humans as somehow special nor damned. I also don't believe "God" cares nor doesn't care about humans or existence.
I also don't believe in inherent meaning, nor that there is some form of divine justice. Those are human lenses through which we interpret the world, and are unlikely to apply (at least in the same way as a human) to the supposed viewpoint of an eternal omniscient omnipotent entity that created the universe and will supposedly one day close the door on time and its own existence.
In short, I'm one bleak motherfucker and it doesn't matter if "God" exists or not. Either way, I don't get to survive death. What is eternal about me is inherently not a part of me. It is mortality, true mortality, mortality of the consciousness and the ego and the individual that defines the individual. When that dies, "Godβ or not, either way there is no individual to somehow surpass death.
Leave me be, I'm agnostic. Bother me with religious nonsense and see the atheist come out and ruin your day.
I dont know. I am conflicted about it. If god exists why would he create all the suffering and pain? If he doesnt, all the world is just a probability game.
If God exist then why bad thing happen?
The Christian paradigm answers this.
I don't believe gods exist.
I know the Abrahamic god doesn't exist.
How do you know that?
Because it has conflicting attributes.
Something tells me you are doing armchair exegesis. Give me an example.
I am genuinely curious what these conflicting attributes are in your view.
But also, from a dialectical lens, contradiction exists in all things in our own observable reality, from the lowest levels of the concept of movement to the highest levels of the organization of human society. Why would a seeming contradiction be proof that God cannot exist?
That's the nature of a contradiction. 2 or more mutually exclusive attributes can't exist together.
No. I believe in Stephen Fry.
Heβs pretty close!