Wednesday 26 October 2011

How would your life change if you knew for a certainty that God was dead?

In James Morrow's book, %26quot;Towing Jehovah,%26quot; God's mile-tall corpse is found floating face-down in the ocean. The book goes on to explore people's reactions to this. If God's corpse was found tomorrow and you knew for an absolute certainty that God was dead, how would your life change? Would your behaviour be any different if you knew there was no afterlife, and that no one was secretly watching you to judge your private thoughts and behaviour?
How would your life change if you knew for a certainty that God was dead?
he doesn't exist, so trust me, his corpse will never be found.
How would your life change if you knew for a certainty that God was dead?
BYoung: “Receive the exhortation and counsel of God, and profit by it; and employ the rest of your lives in good thoughts, kind words, and good works. Shall I sit down and read the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Covenants all the time?%26quot; says one. Yes, if you please, and when you have done, you may be nothing but a sectarian after all. It is your duty to study to know everything upon the face of the earth, in addition to reading those books. We should not only study good, and its effects upon our race, but also evil, and its consequences.”
Assuming God is a person with a body, this would change nothing because I don't believe in anthropomorphic depictions of God. they are false human projections that describe limitation. What is infinte is not subject to anything finite such as a body.
There would be no question, if God was dead so would all of us be, for he sustains the universe.
If God is dead, then all of us is dead too.