GOD: Does God have a sense of taste? If so, he can taste the bitter as well as the sweet, in which case he will sometimes be displeased. Likewise, if he can hear, see, smell, and touch, he will find some things repellent and thereby experience vexation. (*) And since this means that “God is subject to change for the worse”, we may once again conclude that a perfect and immutable God does not exist. (13) - George H. Smith, Why Atheism? Page 179. - (*) And these repellent things of beings, are also supposed to be the creations of this supposedly perfect creators and artist. – JZ, 3.10.14. GOD: incomprehensibilities arise when we suppose that God is a living being. Any such being must be able to experience sensations, “for it is precisely the fact of possessing sensation that differentiates a living being from what is not a living being.” But sensation is a kind of alteration: “[I]t is impossible for a thing which apprehends by means of a sense to escape alteration and remain, instead, in the condition it was in before the apprehension.” This means that God undergoes change, including change for the worse, in which case he cannot be perfect and immutable. We can therefore say that the concept of a living God, since it contains internal contradictions, cannot possibly refer to something in the real world. - George H. Smith, Why Atheism? Pages 178/79.
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