Herein we continue considering the UK’s Church And State’s 6 Things Religion Can’t Explain by Dean Van Drasek, February 5, 2015 AD—see the whole series here.
2. Why does God(s) care about humans?
Church And State’s Dean Van Drasek writes, “OK, the Hindu gods don’t care so much…the same wheel of reincarnation…where it’s a ‘you do this for me, and I will do this for you’ sort of arrangement.”
He then notes, “But with the monotheisms, you have to wonder why their god(s) bother. The Hebrew’s god loved the smell of burned animal flesh so, while there was a Temple around at which the sacrifices were made, YHWH got something out of the relationship.”
He then mentions that “in Zoroastrianism, Ahura Mazda needs people as his ally against Angra Mainyu, almost in the same way as Odin needs heroes to fight with him at the final battle of Ragnarök.” Yet, in fact, Zoroastrianism is generally not conceived of as being monotheistic but dualistic: two gods with one being subjectively “good” and the other being subjectively “evil.”
Drasek claims that in counter-distinction to Ahura Mazda and Odin, “the gods of Christianity and Islam don’t need soldiers, as its already pre-ordained that they will emerge victorious.”
Interestingly, according to him, he was asserting “6 Things Religion Can’t Explain” one of which is “Why does God(s) care about humans?” and while apparently “Religion Can’t Explain” (actually Darsek’s myopic knowledge of “Religion Can’t”), he thinks that he can as he writes, “So why do gods care about humans? Because they want to be worshipped?”
Yet, his point falls apart when after distinguishing different gods, he then lumps them all together in generically and generally stating, “They don’t have compassion for humans, since they send all non-believers (the vast majority of humans) to eternal suffering.” So, Darsek’s answer to “Why does God(s) care about humans?” is that they do not which means that his was a non-question.
He merely asserts that they do not “care about humans” but merely “want to be worshipped” and also do not “care about humans” because “they send all non-believers…to eternal suffering.” Yet, if, for example, someone wants nothing to do with God and proves this by not repenting and thus, holding on to their sin then God gives them that which they want: eternal separation from God.
Since, Darsek of clearly out of sorts he then asks “So why save some at all?” then demands that you “Please don’t say, ‘because they love us,’ unless you can look a starving child in the face and tell her how the god who created her loves her so much that he is sending her to hell for eternity.”
You see, this is not about reasoning through these issues but about Darsek expressing emotions. Here, he has touched upon the problem of evil and yet, he did not premise his condemnation of starving children or sending them to hell for eternity which means that he is merely expressing emotions.
Lastly, he merely asserts, “Let’s face it, the best explanation is probably that the gods were bored and so humanity and all creation is the cosmological equivalent of a Sony PlayStation for a divinity.”
Well, as we have seen, Drasek’s knowledge of theology is embarrassingly myopic which is why he generalizes and does not seem to even realize that not all “monotheisms” are created equal. The fact, is that Trinitarian monotheism denotes that in His nature and essence the Godhead consists of three co-equal, co-eternal persons which means that God has enjoyed relationships eternally. Moreover, this relationship is diverse amongst the persons of the Trinity and yet, unified as God is one.
Thus, God was not bored but created humanity so as to further share and express his relational nature.
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