Who am I?

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PAT


>Are you equating God with human beings?  I would agree with you that

>people who demand adulation are obnoxious, because human beings are not

>perfect.


So, if a god demands worship, we can conclude that it is also not perfect?

  But you just referred to an omniscient, omnipotent God.  By

>that definition He would have to be completely sovreign over the entire

>universe.  Why wouldn't such a being be worthy of worship?


Worship implies, at least to some degree, positive feelings. Those have to
be *earned* - not simply demanded.

  The nature

>of God cannot be compared with the nature of man.


Are you saying that we cannot judge this god by our own standards?

In that case, we have no basis rational or logical basis for concluding
that this god is "good." We only have our own standards of what is good and
bad - and if those standards are invalid with respect to a god, then we
have no basis for judgement. As far as we know, this god is absolutely evil
and only means to do us harm.

Austin Cline; German Department; Princeton University
--- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
      esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

               - Nietzsche "The Dawn" (1881)

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