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Correct, I don't fill unknown gaps with "god", that is a cop out, I just don't know yet and that's fine.

There is plenty of stuff we know for sure to work on.

It's on the god is real crowd to show there is a reason to listen to what they say. With thousands of geographically and philososphically incompatible god stories around, it seems obvious that humans created all the gods. Ya can't have an all powerful god that can't even get a consensus on one spec in the universe.

The Church was the State, but used god as their stick to hold power over the Plebs. Right this very moment there is a young girl somewhere being forcibly mutilated in the name of a god.

I say they either prove they are right, or leave everyone else alone.

The flaw in your 2nd sentence is making up a thing called god that is not there, detectable, nor necessary for humans or anything else to exist.

We are not passive rail cars, we are one of the millions of branches of evolutionary biochemistry that survived over billions of years that became conscious and can notice that we are "here". We're trying to figure out what here is and have created gods to help make sense of this amazing universe we find ourselves in.

As we build on each other's work, we found that we are not the center of that universe, but rather we are on a spec of dust hurtling through space around an average star in an average galaxy.

That reality is AWESOME! We only get 122 trips around that star at most, that is the preciousness of time in space.

Stay humble, stack Sats!

God is contingent on people creating gods. There is no other place god exists. Something like the speed of light through a vacuum is not at all contingent on people. I am confused by your statements, the motion of the train is contingent on the locomotive pulling it, but not so much about god as far as I can reason.

There is no objective "nature of god" outside of human consciousness to be confused by.

How the universe came to exist is unknown, but you don't need god to explain any of it for the past 13 + billion years. How life began on Earth is unknown, but you don't need a god to explain any of it post life emerging. There are unknowns, but god filling in those gaps has proven to be historically silly.

What made god, what made that, and the rest of the turtles all the way down. Hand waves of supernatural this or that beginings or eternity is just a cop out IMHO.

You don't Need any amount of social engagement farming in your scroll. It is Not an essential nutrient.

I have very similar feelings on this. I heard a lot of "its fucking Game Stop loser, shut up about bitcoin" when I predicted 100,000 in 5 years 7-1-2026 . It would be satisfying to be right a year early I have to say : )

I liked this particular exchange between Chesterson and Bernard Shaw:

C: "to look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England"

S: "to look at you, anyone would think you caused it"

: )