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- From: epowers@mccoy (POWERS)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: God MUST be bored! (Hypothetically)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.221353.24656@nmsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:13:53 GMT
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- In article <C1E54D.HoJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jjh37997@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (James
- J. Herlburt) writes:
- > gre253@its.csiro.au (Steve Green) writes:
- >
- > >Greetings fellow atheists!
- > > This is my first post to this group - be gentle. :-)
- >
- > >I'd just like to share a little toy idea of mine. Suppose God did
- exist!?
- > >He/She/it would be bored shitless! What I'm trying to say, and maybe
- some
- > >of you christian types can help here, is "What's in creation for God?".
- >
- > >Don't worry - I'll answer for you. You'll all say "he wants us to love
- > >him". But what sort of egomaniac would create beings to love him? And
- then
- > >say "if you don't love me - you'll burn in hell" - Talk about Mr. Nice
- guy.
- >
- > >I'm no psychiatrist but isn't this sort of behaviour sound like he must
- be
- > >one sick puppy.
- >
- > >I just love this mental image of God sitting at his Amiga 1000000
- playing
- > >Sim-Universe - getting really bored - and turning it OFF!
- >
- > >Have a nice day :-)
- >
- > The good doctor Asimov wrote a short story that somewhat expressed this
- idea.He stated that the only thing a being, like the supposed God, would
- want is to
- > die. God then went about creating humans (and others) to help him think
- of a
- > way to do it. Good story - wish I rememebered the name.
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >========================================================================
- > >| Steve Green
-
- Cute story. I'm curious, is there a technical name for "argument
- by anthropomorphism"?
- Erik Powers
-