Breaking news: God is proven to be real, lives in Denmark.

I can virtually guarantee you, that this is not how it would play out.
Depending on the weight of the “evidence” pointing to the old bloke being “God”, the various christian churches would almost uniformly accuse him of being Satan, trying to deceive humans and lead them away from the “true God”.
Attempted assassinations/lynching would also be probable to occur.

If I was in power at that time, I would arrest him immediately and interrogate him regarding the genocide and mass murder he committed and commanded in the Old Testament, and if it can be proven/he confesses that he did indeed do it, he would be imprisoned forever.

God is in Denmark also.

@ragingloli

Ooops… you may be right, there… However… He’s God and it would spin out whatever way He wanted. Obviously, this is how it spun out now.

So you think we now have a whole lot people set out on their way to kill this charlatan.

I would still wonder though… what would happen if everyone would believe this evidence and accept that God is now proven to be real and living in Denmark. @ETpro would even accept that.

Let’s say we are now 50 years in the future and everybody more or less agrees that God is living in Denmark and not taking any visitors?

I’m with Loli. The Pious will attempt to kill him, and Biblegod would have no recourse other than destroying the human race… again.

Guys… the setting is to reflect on a hypothetical.

In short you say… God proven to be real… Kill Him!!!!!

Well… he’s God, so cannot happen. Sorry. (He’s omni-whatever and forever as well.)

^ I said “attempt”.

We’re talking about extremely pious people. The Muslims who believe salt water and fresh water can’t mix, because that’s what the Koran says. If you mix salt and fresh water directly in front of them, they will obstinately insist that their eyes are telling a falsehood, because the Koran never lies.

—Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic: الدّجّال‎, literally “The Deceiving Messiah”), is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear pretending to be God at a time in the future, before Yawm al-Qiyamah (The Day of Resurrection, Judgment Day).

—As far as very pious Christianity goes, they already have a prediction as to the end of the world, and it includes a false prophet being raised on a pedestal as a god. The Antichrist is supposed to be assassinated 3½ years after being revealed. So any “real god” that comes along is going to play right into end times prophecy.

Your hypothetical situation isn’t going to remove the fact that the crazed religious folk in the world already think they know what’s happening. They aren’t going to accept “Oh, this guy says he’s god and we should chillax”. They’re going to think “This guy says he’s god, and next is the mark of the beast and then Armageddon!”

I don’t think it would be possible to contain God in human form…he’s have to send a surrogate again. How about this time, it’s his only begotten daughter.

Now THAT would be interesting, given the flux of human and women’s rights today, particularly within world religions. Once revealed, she’s have to accept the protection of some entity; a church, government, etc. Would it be possible for the Daughter of God to me more than a media sensation in the modern world?

LOL!

” What would happen next? Would we continue to pray as we did? Or would we go ‘en mass’ to Denmark to find Him and try to talk to Him face-to-face? Why would we need to do that then and not now? ”

Your choices are as unimaginative as they are old testament ignorant.

Drag his wrinkled old ass over to the Hague and try him for the war crimes/crimes against humanity he admits to in that 3,000 year old snoozer he purportedly wrote. Then hang him.

@ragingloli

” and if it can be proven/he confesses that he did indeed do it, he would be imprisoned forever. ”

He has already snitched himself off in that book he supposed wrote. Your ” punishment ” is too restrained.

So, the next time i bite into a Danish i’m more or less going down on the holy daddy?

Hey, it’s better than that little dried wafer that the Catholics get @ucme

There’s an old Jewish proverb that applies:

“If G-d lived on earth, people would break His windows.” The line appeared in Fiddler on the Roof, but surely predates that.

I see no reason why this wouldn’t apply to Danes as well as Jews.

Most of us believers would go there to fall at His feet. Like Jesus & the apostles.

@KNOWITALL But, following a period of scepticism, I would guess?

I’d send him an email to tell him I think he’s a pathetic excuse for a god, for not answering my prayers when I was a kid, and for a lot of other reasons besides. And if he thinks I’m going to start worshipping him for no other reason than he exists, he can think again.

I guess this makes me not just an atheist, but an actual anti-theist.

Why would god be a wrinkled old man? If I were the greatest force of all things, all places, all times, I’d be at LEAST as hot as I was 25 years ago. No way would I let myself go with a choice in play. Course, were I god, there’d be cabana boys, not angels
I wouldn’t try to harm god, or hold him accountable. I would just move to Denmark because if a perfect being liked it there enough to live there, then that’s where I’d want to be.
I might challenge him to a game of Scrabble, just to see if I could take him down.

I love fluther.

I think, as a former atheist, the first thing I would want to know is just who is this god?  I don’t see any reason to think it would the Chriastian diety over any other diety I had or hadn’t heard of.  Given how you describe him in the question he sounds more like The Dude than my heavenly father (which would be an improvement in my opinion).  If he does turn out to be his Dudeness I think I probably just carry on with limited adjustment.  I mean if he’s not really involved with what’s going on he’s not really of great importance to me, especially if he’s keeping mum on the things he could share.

But then again he does still have a history on not giving any help on things like smallpox and aids so fuck him.

@downtide personally I think misantheist ought to be the word for that.

Why is this news? We have been aware of Odin and Thor for hundreds of years. Nobody really cares.

Screw all the war crime trials and hate bullshit. Whether those acts were committed in the name of God or not the folks who committed them still had a choice of whether to commit them or not. “God” is a bigger scapegoat than Charlie Brown or Satan when it comes to laying blame for one’s own actions. I’m sure the big fella would give me points for accepting some personal responsibility. He’d probably give me a “Get Out Of Church Free” card for Sundays that fell during the football season. God, of course, is a die hard Green Bay Packer fan.

I would have to ask him one really tough question. Why the fuck did Hoban “Wash” Washburne have to die?

stay shiny ponyboy

^ YEAH!
Gorram chou wang ba dan, cao ni zu zong shi ba dai…..

@Blondesjon Because Joss Whedon is more evil than Satan. Him, George R.R. Martin, and Stephen Moffat are the Unholy Trinity, killing all that you love.

^ In the case of Stephen Moffatt, he keeps resurrecting an awful character on a regular basis for at least two seasons. I haven’t seen the most recent season of Doctor Who, but the next time Rory gets killed, it better frakking stick.

No! I lurve Rory! But I’m pretty sure the Ponds are as gone as any companion can be. So, moot point.

I just watched Series Seven, so we’ll see if he grows on me.

I’m confused. Did you see seven but not five and six? Cause the writing general and for the Ponds specifically in seven is Moffat’s low in my opinion.

Correction – haven’t seen seven yet. I saw five and six. Rory’s dead, Rory’s alive. Amy’s dead, Amy’s alive. Rory’s almost dead again! Oh! He’s a robot! Nope, he’s not, but he’s dead again!

Gag me with a red pen.

@Seek_Kolinahr I loved it, I always yelled “Oh no, not again” and everyone in the room laughed.

Yah, that’s cute.

Why Denmark?

@Blondesjon
He would still be directly responsible for the genocide of the Great Flood, the mass murder with destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the mass infanticide in Egypt.

@ragingloli . . . Like you haven’t had a bad day.

@Seek_Kolinahr I’ll grudgingly allow your opinion, this time.

I was talking to Jesus and Moses the other day and they’re meeting at Starbuck’s for coffee in a couple of days.

@Blondesjon
Well, I guess that lets Hitler off the hook, too.

@glacial Of course. A lot of people seem to think they’re God these days…lol

If God decided to live someplace on Earth, it would not be Denmark.

Pakistan?

@Blondesjon Turkey?

Uganda.

I don’t know, sounds like a pretty chill place to me.

Surely God would choose Holy-wood as his/her/it’s place of residence.
Be right at home with all those fame hungry attention seekers.

God wouldn’t tolerate the taxes.

God would not tolerate anyone or anything. The land would be covered in craters.

Prove it. Seven years later, show me one thing God did in Denmark.