This question was asked to Stephen Fry and I love his answer. So I ask you what would you say?
To answer my own question I suppose I would be more logical and tell God it was his fault I did not believe in him because if he created me then he knows I would not blindly follow anything that reads like a fairytale or where there was no proof of existence.
Well, I'll be damned. Fry's answer is the theme of Twain's The Mysterious Stranger.
Hahaaa I think I'd say "So where have you been all my life?" And then if he still wanted to talk with me I would have to question him on why he did things the way he did..you know, what was the point. And then I'd ask him if I could speak directly to Sartre.
I don't think I'd talk to such a being. Either it's too big for it's britches, or it's too big for the conversation to matter.
I would just have an honest talk about why I don't believe in God. Which if God truly knows all them I'd just be expressing it aloud and directly. Which if this day ever comes were my intentions anyway. If the conversation continues and I can get answers from God. I would ask about a lot more. Mostly about why must there be so much suffering. To a lot of those who believe in you. Not here in America but overseas where there are way worse conditions than here. And is God's power as strong and extensive as the good book leads you to believe?
"you gave some really shitty evidence for your existence" followed by " you really kind of screwed this whole thing up, didn't you?"
I met him on mesacline !! When you meet "god" you don't talk you sit there in awe completely mindblown..
I know it was the mescal... but I also KNOW I met god (or what people think of as that). You don't have to talk to god he already knows lol ; I can't possibly explain myself and probably this sounds pretty much like gibberish lmfao. Which is normal for me.
When he opened his mouth it was everyone who had ever lived and died.. plus the others not yet born all whispering, "everything is going to be okay", in a loving way ... I mean what do you do with that LMAO!!
So if you can talk you will be doing really well top question.. suppose if I could talk I would have asked him,
Where do all the odd socks go ? 3. 2. IF you ever make another Trump can he have a bigger penis?
Why do cats knock things over!?
So...Where is the Bar and what time is Happy Hour???
Define God
It's just a hypothetical. Use your imagination. What would you say?
@BlueWave Stephen is using the Christian God as the God Model, in particular the Christian God as dictated by the Church of England in which he was raised.
That does not match other Christian God Models, that is why there are so many sects, they disagree about either the nature of God, the definition of God, or the acts God would undertake.
I do not believe in any God, and frankly I spent long enough learning about these Models for God, while thinking one of them MUST be true, that when it dawned on me they all lacked real evidence, all relied on emotional and mental states of mind, and all shared the common trait of originating from human societies who could not make sesne of the reality they found themselves in, that I came to understand no one believes in the same God.
It's a Personal "Imagned" God.
Your own personal Jesus
Since then, thirty years or so ago, I do not "use my imagination", because then I am imagining with all my bias intact, and that won't agree with all the bias and ideas YOU have intact.
Your model of God and Mine will not match UNLESS we first agree upon WHAT that is, otherwise your just playing in the wake of a deepity.
Which one?
And why are you using a male pronoun?
Let me guess.
You also see him as "White" and "Gentile"
On edit - Fry's answer was excellent. I have answered very similar to that when some evangelic type keeps pushing the issue because they think they are going to cause me to have a "come to Jesus moment."
That type of answer will generally shut them down. .
C'moooooonnnnnnnn people..............focus. Okay -- say it's an Asian female god.
You die. What do you say to her?
I am Latina and an Atheist so my God would be Frida Kahlo if I could chose. But honestly when written I was not thinking about the pronoun it was more about the question itself. So the God of your choosing , race and gender of your choosing.