Imagine A World Without God

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This video discusses the burning question: What would the world be like without a god [3:33]

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Eaggghhhh....

I came looking for something nice and light to end the evening... this not it :-/

I didn't try listen to it all, but it seems to translate to "we Christians are unbelievably needy people, who can't imagine being without the object of our neediness." Well, yes, maybe you should get rid of your neediness...

I'd add that, to me, true charity is where you don't ask for a return, your "return" is seeing those who benefited, benefit.

(One the plus side, if you can call it that, this is one video I can actually follow the words.)

By DeafScientist (not verified) on 19 Mar 2009 #permalink

What would the world be like without a god? Why, exactly the same as it is now, of course...

Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "Without God all things are permitted." I've often heard said, and seen written, statements such as "With god, all things are possible."

So you can do anything without god, and you can do anything with god. Thus, life is not affected by the presence or absence of god.

Yet another example of American copywriters trying to be oh so clever in their satire, but intellectually feeble and yet again offensive to those people whose reliance on a sense of a personal God enables them (logically or not) to be a little less selfish and a little more loving in this world.

Joseph, when Paul was spreading the Christian gospel one of his concerns was to emphasise how adherence to the Christian message frees one, gives one freedom. Whereas those who remain enslaved to behaviours that are self destructive are not free, (although they consider they have free will to do anything they please), paradoxically someone who has recognised the value of a less selfish life (to put the Christian message in a more neutral and less tendentious way)have a lot of freedom, and it is in that sense that Paul famously says, 1 Corinthians 6:12; 10:23, that "all things are permitted for me" (in other words I still retain a free will, but I also know the things that are good for me and those that are not.)
It is a shame that American society is beset by fuckwit evangelists and a lot of gormless Americans consume their tripe to the disadvantage of many; there is however a lot of wisdom in ancient religious and philosophical writings if people care to look beyond the headlines.

By mackerelsaladboy (not verified) on 21 Mar 2009 #permalink

God damn, if god dissapeared you will be a blood thirsty cannibal? What a complete idiot. That guy has serios problems. Fucking moron. I'm an atheist and quite happy stupid. 3 minutes wadted on that crap.

How can you possibly imagine? Darkness without Light, Cold without Heat.

I thought it would be more along the lines of why live? Came into this world kicking and screaming why leave that way???