Tip 2: The Turing Test.

The following is a bit of an online conversation between a Christian and myself. The context for this portion of the conversation is that the Christian had asked me whether, if God had proven himself empirically to me, I would accept him.

I'm leaving the specific Christian anonymous.

Me: If God was good by my understanding, I would be ready to have a relationship with him.

Theist: -So, by your standards? Then it falls down to who is trying to please who here?

Me: If the only elements of this relationship are God commanding and me obeying, that is not a personal relationship. That is the relationship between a person and a thing, no more personal than the relationship between you and a spoon when you eat soup.

Theist: -Right.

Me: Good, so you agree with my challenging God's morality so that he can please me.
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