Posted: May 29, 2016 8:56 am
John Platko wrote:
I was cooking eggs this morning while pondering atheists praying to large long haired lesbians and such it dawned on me that
the risk reward of atheists engaging in such prayer might lean more toward the reward column than it would for the average theist who often seems to get their idea maps into the weeds because they actually believe that the God they are imagining exists beyond the substrate of their neural fabric. History is littered with the batty ideas that actual belief can lead to. It is
just a hypothesis mind you and there are reasons to think it not true Prof Lurhmann seems to highly rate the importance of believing in the God you imagine and the word imagine might make belief difficult for some. Still it is worth pondering
What exactly is the point in simply imagining God exists as opposed to actually thinking he does ? You might as well
forgo such an obvious self delusion if it is the extent of your belief. I would suggest that for all believers God is real