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Old 02-06-2003, 07:30 PM   #1
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I just had this question asked of me today by someone (a nice fundy) I came out of the closet to. My response: "I'd ask him about the Grand Unified Field Theory and whether the inflationary universe is an accurate description of the beginnings of the universe or whether we there is a cosmological constant. And of course, I'd like the brain power to understand the intense mathematics. And while you're at it, God, can you now give me the power to travel through time and space so I can go explore the universe and time?"

His response: "Well, He does give us free will."

But it is a good question for those of us non-theists. What's would you ask it?

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I'd ask the Christian God is he were real, and then completely ignore anything he told me.
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I'd ask him how he managed to stay sane after so many humans completely distorted his whole image.

Then I would ask why he decided to create a universe and hide from it, only to reveal himself after the creation dies.

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I'd ask him his name...
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Its JahBuLon.

I'd ask him why he has such an inordinate fondness for beetles. (I got it first this time!)
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I'd ask him why he has such an inordinate fondness for beetles. (I got it first this time!)
You wouldn't ask him why he didn't put rabbits in the pre-Cambrian?
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Three questions. Who are you? Who am I? Why?
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After "You sure don't look like Alanis Morissette!" I'd ask,

"Did any group's theology even come close to describing what this is all about?"

and then, if it turns out I'm talking to the God of the New Testament, I'd say,

"What purpose do damned souls (their identities known to the omniscient God from infinity past) serve in the perfectly understood creation of a perfectly good being?"

followed by "You know full well that I would never have deconverted had you provided evidence during my sincere quest for understanding. Despite the present encounter, I have no justification for believing in you, since I can't prove it's not a hallucination. If you damn me at the end of my life, you do so because I acted with integrity concerning you. If you pardon me, you lied to the Christians whose god you are. You simply are not just."

And then I'd wake up, make a sandwich and boot up the 'puter, since dreaming about the incoherency of theism inevitably leads to the midnight munchies and a desire to play a Sid Meier or Will Wright god-game.

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I just had this question asked of me today by someone (a nice fundy) I came out of the closet to. My response: "I'd ask him about the Grand Unified Field Theory and whether the inflationary universe is an accurate description of the beginnings of the universe or whether we there is a cosmological constant. And of course, I'd like the brain power to understand the intense mathematics. And while you're at it, God, can you now give me the power to travel through time and space so I can go explore the universe and time?"

His response: "Well, He does give us free will."

But it is a good question for those of us non-theists. What's would you ask it?

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To rid the earth of all the brainwashed religious idiots, like faldwell, shuller, swaggart, robertson, tilton, and those freaking crouches.
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