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- If there is an entity that was powerful enough to create life, it must have occurred many billions of years ago, and start with the Big Bang or even iterations of it before. In that case, life is an unpredictable outcome to a degree that Earth as we know it is the outcome of randomness.
- So either, in addition to being practically omnipotent, we'd also have to assume omniscience crossing time at least by billions of years.
- Earth isn't that particularly interesting, we'd be one planet with life among billions or more. To assume that *we* are the focus of interest for an entity that created an entire universe is collectively narcissistic. The planet (in its entire lifespan including the future) might be interesting, but let's not assume that God would establish contact with us just two millennia ago, and then demand worship and faith.
- Many religions were founded across the entire planet over its existence, and different ones by our ancestors. So clearly ALL have to be false, and ONLY one maximum can be correct.
- Why would an entity that is omnipotent and omniscient even care about the personal affairs of people? Or even act in their favor?
While the idea of a caring God is nice, it's asking for a little too much. The thing is - sometimes good things happen, sometimes bad things happen. Good and bad things have happened to me, and most were the consequences of my own actions. To attribute it to something external would deprive me of self-agency.
Prayer is a neat way for people to verbalize thoughts, to essentially meditate about things - but I can verbalize thoughts easily as well, I speak to myself sometimes which is a form of elevated thinking, as it manifests thoughts in a more concrete way, which allows discovering issues or areas that haven't been worked out. But it is not tied to "prayer-topics." But I have created many speeches in my bathtub, like what I would tell Hitler if I'd go back in time.