Wednesday, October 26, 2011

God is too busy

I often see or hear people express thoughts along these lines: "If there's a God, that entity has far more significant things to be concerned with than X."

Such people have either failed to consider all the implications of omnipotency and omnisciency, or they've concluded that since God hasn't fixed A, B, or C that there can't really be any such thing as an omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving God.

Since there is ample room in such a God's attention span for your immediate concerns, the only remaining issue is whether God exists or not.  Since we can't know, since we must take God's existence as an element of faith supported by our interpretation of the evidence we encounter, we may as well put our every need before God in addition to doing what we think is best about things.  After all, there is no evidence of God that some people won't insist on poking holes through, just as there is no event that some people won't interpret as evidence of God.

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