ImGod

Hey, read the display name blasphemer.

Everyone bow before my greatness.

Stop laughing or I'll send you to hell. Hell, I tell you.

Eudaimonist

What position? Exactly how could one fill this position?

Atheists are typically rational enough to know that they are human beings, not gods. People who think they are gods usually end up in the insane asylum.

Isn't being human enough?

Undercurrent

I think that you'll find that most atheists, and for that matter most people, do take that option. We haven't really mastered immortality yet, but over the last few hundred years we're certainly living longer and dying of disease less. Omnipotence is still beyond our grasp, but we have quite a bit more control over our environment than we used to.

If "God" is taken to be a perfect being, any action we take to try to improve ourselves and our condition would nescessarily be "trying to be more like God." The only things that would not be would be stagnation or decline. Whether or not God actually exists is irrelevant.

m.

Bible Humper

Hmm, I seemed to have missed something obvious when I made my first post.

I suggest that you read the Incarnations Of Immortality series by Piers Anthony, he already thought of this! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345338588/qid=1038029043/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-1135088-7520660?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">Here is book one of the seven book series. God, Satan, Death, Time, War, Fate, and Nature are all "offices" which are filled by mortals worthy of the position. You can become Death by killing the Grim Reaper!</a>