No. Hiding things to preserve a belief system seems to be a trademark of organized religion.
This is true. Maybe it is those who hide the truth who make God look bad???
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No. Hiding things to preserve a belief system seems to be a trademark of organized religion.
Answering as an agnostic - No, I welcome discovery and acquisition of knowledge. Now let's place the shoe on the other foot; What if you witnessed undeniable proof that there was no god. Or that there was a god, but almost everything that your religion claimed about god's will and nature turned out to be wildly incorrect? Would you hide it?
I would not. If fact I have said openly The God I worship might not be real.
I can think of only one proof. But I think anyone's perceived proof including mine too is personal.
One day you enter a trance state. In it you see what your day will be another day. When the day comes everything that happened to you in the trance state of that day happens just like in the trance. Is it God? I think you would hide the happening. Why do I think so? It is not proof to anyone else. It is for You.
What if you witnessed undeniable proof God exists. Would you hide it?
I don't see what that would have to do with proof of the existence of any god. I'm not even aware of anything that suggests any particular god might cause such a thing to happen.One day you enter a trance state. In it you see what your day will be another day. When the day comes everything that happened to you in the trance state of that day happens just like in the trance. Is it God? I think you would hide the happening. Why do I think so? It is not proof to anyone else. It is for You.
Why hide it? It's not like you can't continue to be an atheist despite it.
What if you witnessed undeniable proof God exists. Would you hide it?
Well I can't speak for the nonbeliever.....and I have no religion.....
But I would hide it.
Even though the Carpenter did say.....
No one lights a candle, then to hide it beneath a bushel basket.
Having such proof would make me a target.
Look what such proof did to the Carpenter.
Having such proof, no door would secure my home.
Having such proof, I dare not go out.
It would be better to post such things as cryptic poems....under a pen name....
I'd hide it.What if you witnessed undeniable proof God exists. Would you hide it?
What an insulting question.
If I had incontrovertible evidence for the existence of the Christian God I would go straight to the UN. I assume they would do everything in their power to take him into custody and charge him with innumerable crimes such as incitement to murder, genocide, infanticide, war crimes and any number of other charges based on his autobiography.What if you witnessed undeniable proof God exists. Would you hide it?
Some people are easily offended.Sometimes people ask BAD questions to look for GOOD answers. Haha I'm going to look see if you ever frubaled me. My guess is not. But I've been wrong a few times.
Some people are easily offended.
But I thought it a fine question.
I had to consider it a while before answering.
It reminds me of the old Persian rug tradition I've heard of...to always make a flaw.I fake a mistake now and then so no one thinks I'm God.
I disagree: not hiding is not hiding.That would be hiding it from yourself.