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In reply to the discussion: There aint no god, if there is may she strike this thread DEAD [View all]whatthehey
(3,660 posts)1) How does denying gods remove accountability if they actually exist? If they don't exist, there is no divine accountability. If they do, disbelieving in them only makes it worse. Disbelieving in gods and caring one way or another about any accountability to them is as silly as a scientific materialist being scared of ghosts.
2) Accountability is plenty available in the real world. I know prisons exist.
3) Faith in Christianity is the best way to deny accountability, because repentance is always an option. Presidential pardons are a bit less freely available. If accouintability to gods worried us, we'd convert.
4) Any putative deity levying infinite punishment for finite sin is far more accountable to humanity than we ever could be to him. If such a deity did exist, they would be the vilest most wicked entity imaginable no more worthy of worship than infant cancer.