WEF Calls For AI To Rewrite Bible, Create ‘Religions That Are Actually Correct’

[Freija]

One should not confuse a wrathful, authoritarian dickhead deity with it's wrathful, authoritarian dickhead acolytes.

Well, who supposedly created a great flood to wipe out the opposition except for a dude and his boat? Who allegedly blew up a city because he didn’t like the way people were acting? Who turned people to pillars of salt and who demanded if you don’t play his game you’re not welcome in the magical kingdom? Why should one submit to bullying tactics of some arrogant pissed off jerk?
(there’s more here: God's 12 Biggest Dick Moves in the Old Testament

Nevertheless, I understand the point you’re making.

I'm curious. Consider this question a part of my ongoing education. Why is belief in a "big mean wrathful omnipotent sky god" more of a stretch than believing the possibility of big mean wrathful all powerful aliens, who can apparently violate the laws of nature and physics at will to travel vast distances in an instant, more of a stretch?

Because it is more fun and aliens haven’t demanded I worship them or burn in hell or some stupid crap like that and the possibilities are more open given the unlikely chance that they might not be dickheads too plus they’re liable to have a more tangible physical presence rather than something unseen and unprovable . Given a choice of fantastical fantasies, I’d rather pick aliens.

It seems to me that if one is agnostic of one of those potentials, they should also be agnostic towards the other of them. Either way, if they have not seen, how can they "know"? Isn't denial of the possibility it's own kind of faith? And isn't the essence of a religion "faith"?

Non-belief, same as belief, seems to me to be it's own sort of religion, albeit a negative one, since absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Therefore any conclusions, either for or against, are "faith-based."

This is why I don’t consider myself an atheist as it has become a religion of its own. I’ve looked at alternatives to Christianity and other Abrahamic “religions” such as The Satanic Temple, Buddhism, Hinduism, Wicca  and even Pastafarianism and discarded all of them because as I stated above, I can’t really be bothered to believe or not believe so in my case, my non-believing is not a faith in itself, it is just nothingness.

A corollary question, in my mind, is why do folks, believers and unbelievers alike, seem to limit the extent of a deity to the sky only? Isn't that, in itself, a limitation on the theoretically limitless? Doesn't the very concept destroy notions of omnipotence?

For me, sky faries is just a phrase and I agree that putting a location to this so called omnipotent spirit in the sky is just another contradiction that makes no sense. It's like a grown up version of Santa Clause who's watching to see who is naughty and who is nice except the consequences for not playing by the rules are more serious than getting a lump of coal with a god that will ban you to eternal hellfire and misery.