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GOD
Besides the evidential problems, the supposed
existence of God has coherence problems. Omnipotence vs. Omniscience
vs. Logical Consistency is just one of them.
God is just this bin of wish-fulfillment into
which people toss all the things they want but don't have. It would
seem that if Someone that important and powerful did actually exist,
His existence would not be something that was argued about.
The skeptical disproof of the existence of
God: "I doubt, therefore God does not exist". God, if He existed,
would be a Thing of such perfection that His existence could not be
doubted. But His existence is doubted. Therefore, He does not exist.
(And neither does She.)
This kind of naive XIXc atheism is passé,
partly because it's too obvious and flat-footed, and partly because
atheism doesn't do any of the work that theism claims to be able to
do. No salvation, no afterlife, no ecstasy, no grounding of ethics
or politics. But the argument from skepticism has a lot of power.
(From a comment
here).
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Further
development of the argument
God is of necessity too large and
imposing to get lost in the sock-drawer. If you look
around carefully and don't see any God, there isn't one.
God isn't like a ring of keys that might still show up.
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who claim that Anselm's "greatness" is not
the same as "bigness", and that "being able
to hide in a sock drawer" is one of the
powers of God, and in no way a deficiency.
These people
probably also believe that God can create a
thing so heavy that he himself cannot lift
it. Rather than argue about this, though, I
just added a sock-drawer proviso to my list
of axioms. |
It is one of the axiomatic beliefs
of my creed, though also provable by reason, that Gods
hiding in sock drawers would be lesser Gods. However,
because of their very lesserness, they would also be
strictly non-existent, since Godness is identical to
absolute moreness.
A real God hiding in a sock drawer
would be so transcendently evident that his attempt at
hiding would fail. His transcendent butt would be
sticking out, and you'd just want to kick it so bad.
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asks me why I would ever want to kick the
butt-greater-than-which-none-can-be-imagined.
That's an easy one. If
I were able to kick the
butt-greater-than-which-none-can-be-imagined,
I would be the ass-kicker of the universe.
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