Religion
In reply to the discussion: Can You Prove It Didn't Happen? [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I have no concept of, and no appreciation of the concept of a being so exceptional and powerful that it could be eternal, and omnipotent, to have created the universe. I don't know where people get that idea, beyond, an idea that is passed from generation to generation, and takes different source forms depending on the culture that person is exposed to it in.
Without an evidenced reason to have that hypothesis, (a supernatural super-powered creator) I see no reason to ask the question.
I take the universe as it appears to be, and one thing it does not appear to me; is manufactured. Leaving the idea of an author to the universe the stuff of sci-fi more or less. Fun fantasy thoughts, not credible 'how the universe works' stuff.
To me, anyway.
Then humanity bolts on so much baggage to that idea; doctrines, precepts, dogmas, commandments, and all the sectarian conflict that comes along with two sets of people with diametrically opposed rigid doctrines... salt that with 'commandments' to propagate the faith all that baggage is bound up in...
Hard for me not to be pretty negative about it.