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The God Thought Experiment |
Just as a thought experiment what does the word God really mean? Is there any way to make the God concept make sense on a scientific context and is it useful to do so? Or is the whole God concept obsolete and we should just push it aside and never speak of it again? Or maybe there is value in exploring the idea for the purpose of disproving it?
The Church of Reality itself started with a thought experiment. We live in a world with all kinds of different religions that believe a lot of different things. So at best only one religion could be the right religion. If there were the right religion, would that right religion look like? The right religion would be the religion that believed in what was actually real. And thus the Church of Reality came to be. Believing in what's real. What an amazing yet simple concept.
We could do a similar thought experiment on the question of God. It's not just a question of if God exists, but which God exists? What does the word God really mean? Before you determine the existence of something you first have to define it and there are a lot of Gods out there to choose from. Every religion, even every believer, has their own God. So it's a matter of determining which God, if any, is the "Real God" first.
When it comes to gods, size matters. If God isn't the greatest then it's not God
If we look for things that are common in defining God (monotheism Gods), the statement "God is that for which there can be nothing greater." would apply. For example, if you have a God and I have a God and my God is bigger than your God - my God wins! When it comes to gods, size matters. Would you want to worship a god knowing that the church down the road has a greater god? I don't think so.
If the term God has any real meaning in the real world then what we have to do is find the biggest/greatest thing out there, and then determine if it is worthy of the title God. If it is then we have found God. If it isn't then there is no God because the God would be smaller than the biggest thing out there. If God isn't the greatest then it's not God. So with this thought experiment we can determine which is really the one true God or determine if any God exists at all.
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