| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Immortalist,)
And if matter was created by god, then who created god? I, like Nietzsche, choose to believe that God is dead. Can I prove this? No, but I find it a great deal of fun to entertain the notion. You see, even atheists prefer to entertain topics which touch upon certain inference systems within the mind, instead of religion we call it philosophy.
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I hate the misuse of Nietzsche. He was saying that God was killed because man have replaced him with notions of science and rationalism but God’s message still rings on in man’s heart. Christianity takes his spirit onwards by promoting his morality. Nietzsche did not believe so much that God was dead than he believed people should come to realize this and renounce his morality. It has nothing to do with God no longer living.
And the notion of who created God is ridiculous. The omnipotent is not created it exists out of itself. If God is everything he is his own creator. And while that might seem irrational, if God is truly omnipotent he exists outside of the realm of rationality. The popular “can God create a stone even he can not push?” question is a perfect example. Not only could God create that stone, but then he could push it. Why? Because that is what omnipotence is. That is who God is. |