Fine tuning specifics: Reasons for God (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 14:06 (2768 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: "Why don’t we wake up every morning and realize our existence is miraculous?”

dhw: Does he believe that atheists are incapable of appreciating the miraculousness of life?

Um, yes...because they are. They can not, by definition, appreciate it as a miracle.

QUOTE: But here’s a third reason to believe in God: I’ve met some men in their 20s whose thinking as teens was so destructive that it looked as if they would soon be dead, imprisoned, or traitorous. I was one of them. But “the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end” -- and the Bible tells me so.

dhw: The third reason to believe in God is that he believes in God and it helped him to become a better person. I appreciate that such faith can indeed be a power for good. So can a placebo. It doesn’t prove God exists, let alone that his mercies never come to an end.

Well, if you accept that there is a God as a given, and then look at all of creation through the lens of that faith, you do begin to get a sense of his love and mercy. Moreover, when you begin to get that sense, you also begin to feel a sense of awe, reverence, appreciation, along with seeing the need for responsibility and accountability for your actions because you see your life, and all other life, as a precious gift that should be cared for.

That is not to say that Atheist can not be accountable, but honestly, what reason do they have to be? They are just 'unimportant, momentary, minuscule specks in a vast indifferent Universe'. If they are right, their actions, ours, or anyone's make no difference whatsoever. Burn the world and damn it all, it doesn't matter one whit. What evolution did before it can do again, and WILL! Anything and everything is meaningless, and therefore valueless because it is all just blind random chance, so do what you want, when you want, how you want, and who cares how destructive you are in the process. After all, its all temporary anyway.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.