God is a coward

[jack]

Sorry, not really. (Well, not necessarily. Uh, I mean, I didn't have any reason to say that, other than as a humorous example of a controversial subject. Argue amongst yourselves if you so wish, but don't blame me. Just look at this bracket, it's amazing how many words saying nothing takes up :))

Where is everyone? My "inbox" has been nearly unclogged of lj updates recently -- have you all become productive or something? Have you all moved to chiark or myspace?

ETA: OK, that seemed to work :)

Comments

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

but all I claimed was that if you believe in that kind of god then some consequences follow,

Conceptions of God amuse me. I was reading a book yesterday (Awesome God by Sara Maitland) which describes various different pictures of god/gods including an inuit one who is well-meaning but incompetent and so the priest's job is to keep the god asleep. The most important moral precept is not to fight as the noise will wake him up and he'll cause chaos!

Too often, in debates about God's existence (in the abstract) a certain type of God is assumed without going into ideas of revelation.