Many theologians, scientists and the like seem to come to the conclusion that, if there is a God, it does not possess any of the characteristics of a monotheistic God, such as the Christian/Abrahamic God. Why is this?
More intelligent? Logical? Realistic?
Ernest S
It is hardly intelligent to refuse the revelation of God.
Mackenzie
Because the monotheistic God's characteristics as described by his followers make him sound pretty pathetic: petty, egocentric, temperamental, sadistic, etc.
I mean, they say "oh, he's so good he's so kind he's so loving and compassionate' but then they paint a picture of a tyrant who goes around as if it's justified to send bears to shred rude teens apart, or to murder almost everyone on the planet in a temper tantrum, or to call someone righteous who offers his daughters up to be raped.
It just seems illogical that if there is a higher power, that it would not be so plagued by human shortcomings.
Anonymous
Wow are you up your assss. I think immediately of the man Einstein looked up to, his friend Goedel.
Godel got it right ; Einstein was not smart in philosophy and took Spinoza's view of God like a baby would swallow sweet poison
Einstein and Gödel were close friends, but they disagreed profoundly on religious and philosophical matters. As Gödel told Hao Wang, “Einstein’s religion [was] more abstract, like Spinoza and Indian philosophy. Spinoza’s god is less than a person; mine is more than a person; because God can play the role of a person.”
Gödel’s personal God is under no obligation to behave in a predictable orderly fashion, and Gödel produced what may be the most damaging critique of general relativity. In a Festschrift for Einstein’s seventieth birthday in 1949, Gödel demonstrated the possibility of a special case in which, as Palle Yourgrau described the result, “the large-scale geometry of the world is so warped that there exist space-time curves that bend back on themselves so far that they close; that is, they return to their starting point.” This means that “a highly accelerated spaceship journey along such a closed path, or world line, could only be described as time travel.” In fact, “Gödel worked out the length and time for the journey, as well as the exact speed and fuel requirements.”
yesmar
I don't agree with your assertion that such is indeed so.
President Michael Vicks Dog
Because you gotta a be a goddamn retard to think the bible god is real.