Did you know that the biblical “God” was once merely a wandering desert tribe’s god of war?
After casting off their other gods “for I AM a jealous god” they were “chosen” by the one that remained.
Have you heard the story of Sophia? Mother of Christ and the malformed stillbirth yahweh?
The ungraced “one most high”? Who’s peak could never extend past the physical morass into the spiritual pleuroma?
These are just my thoughts, but the story fed to us at mass through the cannibal rituals led by pedophiles reeks of control and contractual complacency (I include all Churches under this description, out of fairness, some have been more exposed than others)
2-3. To me personally there's a difference between these things. To the universe as a whole there is not. To me personally it's wrong to fuck an infant or murder a child. To the universe, death and sex have been a part of life for billions of years on this planet and the only right or wrong of it is what works for the survival of your genes and what doesn't. You claim your morality is objective and universal, but you offer no proof other than your feelings, and you can't explain why so many people disagree on what is morally good or evil.
I don't "believe" the universe is cyclical, I recognize it as one unproven possibility among many. The universe could be cyclical. The universe could have been created by god. The big bang could have been caused by interdimensional beings or aliens or something that is bound by natural laws but more advanced than us. I don't know which of the many possibilities for how the universe came to be is true. Neither do you, but you replace your lack of knowledge with "god" to explain what you don't and can't know.
Kalam is philosophy/theology/conjecture, not science. The universe can't be proven to be finite. If the foundational assumptions of kalam are wrong, then any conclusions that logically flow from them are wrong as well.
i was raised religious, I believe evolution because it's provably true and created us., not because of propaganda or not being exposed to other ideas. It's the religious who need thought control to protect their ideas, not scientists. You claim that physics was finely tuned to allow life but can't explain why life is so rare in such a vast universe. If our universe was designed by a creator for the purpose of our existence, why all the extraneous bullshit? Physics could have been designed completely differently from the meta level to the nano level to make our entire universe more hospitable to life, not just the occasional rock that happens to be in the right conditions by random chance out of billions of rocks floatiing through space.
I can imagine a universe more fine tuned to support life than this one, therefore this universe was not designed by a creator with intelligence beyond mine for the purposes of creating life.