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Originally Posted by deejzguy
Very interesting. Those remind me of something I heard in a George Carlin bit awhile back.
It went something like...
"Why do people pray when the same people say that god has a divine plan? If god really does have a divine plan, and you pray for something that wasn't a part of the plan, do you expect him to change his plan?"
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Yeah it's like when people mention "God's will" I really don't think they understand what that means. Most of the problems in discussing God stem from the limitations of language. For example we say things like God wants this, or thinks this, or feels this, but "wanting," "thinking," and "feeling" are all characteristics of an organic human brain. Thoughts are the result of electrical charges interacting in your brain. I don't think that God wants, thinks, or feels anything in the traditional sense of what those words mean. Yet by using that language we end up personifying God and that gets us into all kinds of trouble. Asking what God wants is like asking what do rocks and Wednesdays have in common. The question ultimately just doesn't make sense, even if it's not immediately obvious.
Carlin has a new book out btw.