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I never understood the "god can be anything you want" line. Five of the steps involve accepting "god" as an authority over your life, including "His will for us
by 0xcde4c3db 8y ago
I never understood the "god can be anything you want" line. Five of the steps involve accepting "god" as an authority over your life, including "His will for us" and the power to "remove all these defects of character". It reminds me of Henry Ford's infamous "any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black"; i.e. you can have any god you want, as long as it's at least a metaphor for a personal god that deserves authority over your decisions and well-being. Your brother might have no problem with that sense of authority, but plenty of atheists do (e.g. believe that if Yahweh existed, He would be a tyrant undeserving of worship).
- ZeroFries 8y agoYou can reduce those to the authority of the laws of physics, if you want. Try defying the authority of gravity, for example. Then, have faith that the laws of physics will work in such a way that your brain will be altered and addiction no longer so strong.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoHow does physics "remove all these defects of character"?
- avar 8y agoIt's accepted physics that all defects of character will be removed at the heat death of the universe :)
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoRemoved, or frozen in perpetuity?
- ZeroFries 8y agoThe only way to alter one's character are through physics, presumably.