Religion
In reply to the discussion: Is the universe evil? [View all]Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)a being beyond good or evil, one that, at best, has motivations and/or desires that are completely inhuman. Such a being we couldn't relate to, we certainly wouldn't be made in that being's image, nor would that being show affection for us, if they expressed any emotion at all.
We are talking about the supposed Creator of the universe, of the cosmos itself, the creator of time, space, matter itself, the creator of trillions upon trillions of galaxies, each with billions(at minimum) of stars in them and orbiting those stars are quadrillions upon quadrillions of worlds. A universe in which space expands faster than light, where the true size of the universe is just beyond a horizon we can never cross. A universe where the furthest back in time we can see is the big bang, and we see millions of galaxies in slivers of sky no larger than a thumbnail extended a full arm length, and that isn't even close to being able to see far enough, for we are only seeing a small percentage of that universe in our little bubble of light that is only 93 billion light years in diameter.
Knowing all the facts that we know about the universe now, I find it frankly silly that people try to cram all that down, reduce its scope to something more palatable to human experience, and then claim some local Caananite god was the creator of it all. There may very well be a creator to the universe, but such a being certainly has no relationship with humans, nor would it bear any resemblance to the tribal, brutish and primitive god(s) of the Bible, Torah, Koran, Bhagavad Gita or any number of other legends, myths, and so called holy texts that humans imagined over the many centuries.