Albrenia wrote:Lower Nubia wrote:
Your last two questions are answered on the CDT. Your first question is pointless. Why should he have to show himself again? Just to convince people today? When there are plenty of convinced people today anyway?
I wouldn't say He 'has' to show Himself today, but I am saying it would be in His creation's best interests to do so. Assuming one of the most common religions is the true one, that leaves 1 Billion souls at maximum with any chance of salvation, and six times that many at least to end up in whatever version of Hell is on offer.
Despite what many self-righteous believers may claim, most nonbelievers would actually change their tune if shown clear evidence of divinity which would be trivial for an omnipotent being to display.
As to the original question, I agree with an earlier poster who said Secularism is what has made the world a better place, since Atheism can be championed by many, and some of them are not even nearly on the 'good' side of any alignment scale (the Chinese Government, for example).
Your first first 9 words make the rest of your first paragraph pointless.
If God showed himself today, it would be the end times.