Simple question about god-human relations

[Hygro]

I dunno about the likewise if the god is extra dimensional rather than just materially outsized but the rest of the story was good to read.

I watched ants a few years ago and found they communicated in moving a giant chunk of food by tapping each other’s legs and antennae (it was all the same). There was one ant on top of the food relaying the most taps through it to the others, but definitely not doing any of the lifting.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sounds like Phase IV has commenced!

 

[Birdjaguar]

When I was 8, I was very interested in ants. During the summer break I would focus on a large fire-ant nest, in our vacation house. I'd spend hours observing them and (in my view) improving the architecture of their nest, by removing sand and forming it like a bunker with a moat.
The ants didn't like it, and they'd attack me.
Then, one afternoon, I noticed a peculiar looking yellow ant, elsewhere in the yard. I took it in my hand and moved it to the fire-ant nest, expecting to see some interesting ritual of greeting between it and the red ants. Instead they instantly rushed to it and killed it with a hundred mandible bites. This led me to feel enraged and stomp on them. But, in reality, it was just wrong on my part to expect something like a greeting, the ants are not humans and have their own ways, and my act of divine vengeance certainly wasn't warranted.

Nice story, but....

You can ask of the ants to like you, or behave in a way you condone, and kill them if they don't, but it is irrational to expect gratitude for doing stuff they don't want in the first place. Likewise with the supposed existence of a god.

That only works if god is made in the image of humans.

 

[Ferocitus]

Nice story, but....

That only works if god is made in the image of humans.

Very unlikely it would be human. According to J.B.S. Haldane he is extraordinarily fond of beetles.

 

[El_Machinae]

And incredibly angry at Hydrogen, for some reason. I have no idea on the karma there, but a long-term fate of either evaporating or being crushed into nothingness ..... wow

 

[Kyriakos]

God is only necessary to remove both the knowledge of evil and evil as well. Is a Good God still Good, if we think God is not necessary?

You might like the quote: Deus est Anima Brutorum (god is the soul of the animals)
While one meaning of it is trivial - that animals have no soul themselves, so god collectively moves them - another would tie to animals apparently having no sense of evil either, going by how they would kill other animals and view that as normal.
While it is interesting to wonder what would be different if humans had no sense of evil, it is highly likely that if that was the case we would remain in the stone age. And if that was the noble thing, one has to wonder how it reflects well on god's intentions; better to have at least some level of science and thought, than to be a hamster circus.

 

[Chicken Pizza]

There's no Satan. He's a symbol for humanity's collective questioning of God, for example in Genesis 3 (eating the problematic fruit) or the book of Job.

In both cases God leaves his children, the first time obviously too early with disasterous consequences (if you buy that stuff), the second time only to prove some kind of point, and not very suttle.

There's nobody sitting on your shoulder attacking you and at the same time whispering, the doubts are your own and the fantasy is what you're trying to relay to God so that he understands.

For me the question becomes "am I supposed to raise God/Jesus, or him me".

 

[Joij21]

There's no Satan. He's a symbol for humanity's collective questioning of God

Which means GOD WAS THE EVIL GUY ALL ALONG!!!

Congratulations! You solved the mystery of God and why we shouldn't worship him!

 

[Kyriakos]

Which means GOD WAS THE EVIL GUY ALL ALONG!!!

Congratulations! You solved the mystery of God and why we shouldn't worship him!

Janus Bigods.