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Originally Posted by Cynosure
We human beings (mortals though we be) can indeed apply our reason (limited and imperfect as it is) to God, i.e. to his existence, to his characteristics, and to his actions. However, when we do, when we consider or postulate what God is, and what God does or does not do, and the why's and how's thereof of his actions/inaction, we must look at not only the big picture (and I do mean the BIG picture, which includes all of humanity, throughout all of human history), but also the eternal scheme of things. Thus, it appear to me that Epicurus was being short-sighted and probably even sarcastic.
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Vanity, truly my favorite sin.
If something exists capable of creating a universe as infinitely complex as ours is, I find it astonishingly difficult to believe that it cares about six billion members of one species on a small blue green planet orbiting a nondescript mid-phase star. You realize there are more than twenty times the number of galaxies (observable) in our universe than there are human beings on earth? "All of human history" is the tiniest blip in the "BIG" picture that it's hardly worth mentioning.
I'm willing to grant that the enormous complexity and variety of our universe suggests that something pulling the switch. I think the jump from that to he/she/it/they having anything invested in this planet is incredibly difficult, other than out of a desire to feel special.