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paarsurrey wrote:
Hi friend "trubble76"

He is not made-up by me. He existed and will exist from eternity to etenity. He has a permanant abode long before Science was evolved and the Philosophy (not the Science) gave birth to the Scientific Method. I think you understand it.

Thanks

Hello paarsurrey,

The post I quoted above constitutes preaching as per our FUA. Since this is your third active formal warning on this issue, you are hereby suspended for one week. Please, do not create a sockpuppet-account while you are suspended. Should you feel the need to dispute this warning, feel free to contact the staff via E-mail.

Once and if you come back, I would strongly advise you to re-read the rules and stick to them.

Furthermore this thread thread will be locked while I pick out the woo-woo and move it to General debunking.
Edit: Done.
Have a nice day,

Mazille

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trubble76 wrote:

paarsurrey wrote:

trubble76 wrote:

And so your made up god retreats further and further from our theatre of existence.

Hi friend "trubble76"

He is not made-up by me. He existed and will exist from eternity to etenity. He has a permanant abode long before Science was evolved and the Philosophy (not the Science) gave birth to the Scientific Method. I think you understand it.

Thanks

I understand that you are preaching. Either back up your assertions, or do not make them.
I don't know how many times i have to tell you I DO NOT APPRECIATE BEING FUCKING PREACHED TO. You idolise a man that had sex with children. Islam is digusting, as is christianty and the rest. You are in NO position to preach to me.

Oh, and i never said that you made god up, just that god was made up.

I believe that God was made up... by everyone. Let me expand on this a tad. Your forbearance is appreciated.

We , each of us, creates God in our own form. My Dad's God was different from my Mom's God, which was different from how I saw God back when I was a child and still believed in God, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. If we think our God should be vengeful, that's how we see Him. If we think that God should be misogynist, that's how we perceive him to be. If we think He should be kind and loving, that's how we see him. And so on, in the varying degrees of kind and cruel, calm and angry that we think He should be. Whether you grew up with a polytheistic or monotheistic worldview, you still are the one who constructed your own god or gods.

It is because we have developed our perceptions of God (or Allah or Jehovah or whatever you prefer to call your religion's Big Guy in the Sky) through the preachers (imams, ministers, priests, etc.) of our religions and not through direct contact with BGitS that we have this wildly varying picture of who/what God is. It is both a cause of relgious schisms and an indication that maybe, just maybe, there is no Superdaddy, that the religions themselves are merely our fondest hopes and desires expressed in physical form.

In summary, we do not have people who believe in God, we have people who each have their own God(s). They believe in their own individual God(s) because they created them, with no two Gods being exactly the same because no two human creators of God are exactly the same.

One relieves anxiety when one cannot explain a particular phenomenon by attributing it to god. It allows your brain to pretend it has found a way to explain said phenomenon so that it can forget about it and move on to the next obstacle. Unfortunately it's only a placebo relief, as, if said phenomenon does actually present a danger to the individual, one can be unready to meet the threat that has been filed away under "god did it". For a good example of this see global warming denial.

To say "god did it", is to say "I don't know what did it, but I want to pretend that I do." While it may be effective at reducing ones anxiety about the phenomenon, it does not allow one to accurately describe what is happening in reality, nor does it allow one to prepare for any imminent threat that may be hidden by the "god did it" placebo "explanation".