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Originally Posted by aaronblood
Personally, these topics don't bother me at all. I do think atheists sometimes don't like to be confronted with the concept of an infinite God though.
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While I don't consider myself an atheist per se, it's not the concept of an infinite God that bothers me, but quite the opposite: traditional religious views of God, in my opinion, actually very much lower him to the role of a babysitter for the human race. I'm actually uncomfortable with the idea of a God who I can talk to when I want, who will save me when I ask for it, and who is otherwise responsible for many of the human behaviours I see around me. It's illogical and contradictory - if that's what God is, then I want no part of that God because that's just not a good God and he's got some explaining to do for the human race he seems so obsessed with.
I'm not an atheist per se and I do believe in what could be called supernatural energies out there involved in the universe, and I do believe in natural laws being essentially godlike, but there's no way you'll get me to believe in a conscious, actively responsive God that is specifically obsessed with interfering directly in human life on earth. On the other hand I feel it to be beautiful and right to be a finite part of something so great as an infinite universe of an infinite god.