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  For an atheist, I do find the idea of a all-powerful all-knowing God fascinating. Why does the Universe exist? Because God created it! Why did God create the Universe? He already knows everything, he doesn't lack or need or want anything, he's already perfect as he is. Are we sure that he created only one Universe? Maybe he made several. Maybe he made every possible Universe. Wouldn't that be identical to a natural process creating every possible Universe?

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  @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social They missed "data centers which can't be built yet because there isn't sufficient electricity to power them" which I've seen recently.

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  @Bwee@meow.social "Oh come on, you knew what was coming. ;3" Yes, on Fedi you really should do the joke the other way around.

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  @CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social I think there's just enough material in the Bible, sometimes contradictory, to let people cherry-pick it for whatever they want to get people to believe. I think if you are going to believe in an all-powerful all-knowing God then you also have to accept that God is creating people to fill a particular role in his plan, that they are inevitably going to do whatever he expects them to do, including going to hell if that is part of it. It's all predestin...

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  @CanvasesByPeter@mementomori.social There is a branch of religious thought that says happy and/or rich people have been favoured by God and miserable/poor people are disfavoured. This is the prosperity gospel. It has some logic, if you are going to believe in an all-powerful God who is controlling everything, but then you have to wonder why God creates some people to make them happy and others to make them suffer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

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  @alipunk it's like surviving a round of Russian roulette.

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  The religious mentality continues to mystify me. A man thanks God because he survived when his car crashed into a black cow on the highway. By why did God even make him crash? My partner suggests that it was the Devil that put the cow there, black things are a sign of his work, but this raises more questions. Isn't the Devil only an instrument in God's plan? Or was God only powerful enough to let the man survive, but not powerful enough to prevent the crash entirely? https://www...

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  @troberts@theblower.au Time zones, right, easy to overlook if you never go out of the eastern states bubble (excluding Queensland.)