I suppose the phrase “living in a place…” needs some clarification. I’m not aware of any description of just how we “live on”. I suppose the various religious mythos suggest that a soul lives on but that excludes the physical body. Perhaps it’s the ego or some other metaphysical entity that continues to exist.
But how egotistical of theists that they believe their ego is so valuable to humanity that it must exist forever.
I don't mistake a corruption of organization (religion) with a belief in any gods. Many people with no outward religious beliefs believe there is a god (although believing in a god by definition makes one religious in the strictest sense of the word). I go a step further, seeing that what we as humans would wish to be true (that there is a god who will take care of us, that he loves us, that we live forever after we die, that evil will be judged, etc.) doesn't translate into what really is, which is reality, a natural world, with natural (if sometimes mysterious but always really cool) explanations.
The “pass the test” requirement seems to be a logical fallacy that theists buy into. Theists assign rather specific and identifiable attributes for a “being” which is beyond our understanding. So why assign them? Why ascribe these various attributes to a god(s) you claim is beyond our conception. If, as you testified, god(s) is beyond our conception, your attributes describing him/her may be completely wrong. Is this true or not true? Unless you are going to enlighten us with some special knowledge, god(s) have had no direct verifiable communication with any known human. Is this true or not true? You utterly contradict yourself claiming god(s) is/are beyond characterizations, yet, you describe a myriad of such characterizations.
Even if the "gods" chose to intervene out of pity for us poor creatures hopelessly spinning wild conjectural theories about who and what we are, and where we came from, what would these gods tell us? That our existence is predetermined? Maybe they would tell us that all our dogmatic proclamations were utterly unfounded, and we worshiped beings who are just as constrained to the unalterable laws of reality as we are, even if there is a difference in dimensions, and space/time continuum.
Again, we are left to conjecture what this god would or would not think of itself and “its” own motives, but do we think of ourselves as godlike? I realize that some people certainly would, but I hope that we collectively would not. I don't think scientists culture bacteria in petri dishes all the while thinking they are somehow gods over their various bacterium. If anything, they are completely disinterested in the bacterium except as how it pertains to whatever experiment they are pursuing; in which case, perhaps "god" has finished his experiment with us, and we are relegated to some dusty back shelf, allowed to simply mold.
:thumbs_do:thumbs_do:thumbs_do, where you will burn for eternity, telling the angels to tell allah to let you out, begging for another chance! All you have to drink is boiling water which burns you when you drink it, and flames to eat, no sleep, being tortured until u nutin, then come back and do the same again...think...