Why does God care? The Moral Problem

Hypersonic said:

I know guys, I know, it's easy to answer this question using the basic tenants of religious text and the empirical world we see as many religionist often reminds us of our biological nature, to sustenance, to miracles. But setting all theological findings aside, why would God care? According to Astrophysicists there are about roughly 300 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, but estimates on how many galaxies show that there is roughly 100 to 200 billion galaxies. That figure to me is incomprehensible because I am so small in such a vast universe and if some creature in a vast unknown galaxy dies I wont shed a tear, not because I'm incapable of mourning for that creature or because I don't care, but because it has no effect on my life because I don't know that creature and even if I did , I haven't established enough feelings to care. I personally feel like when a human being dies in comparison to the universe it is as if a fire ant somewhere in South America has died. I personally feel no significance to this planet nor to the universe so my question is why would God care about the affairs of various beings? If you believe in aliens then this question also applies as well. It's hard to fathom why such a deity that is beyond comprehension and who, designed this universe would care about the morality of mere coporeal beings.

Why would God care whether I help an elderly lady across the street, or shoot a small child in the face? If mean if you strip the religious moral text away from this question then you come to a type of pragmatic agnosticism. I cannot fathom why or how a deity would create all these galaxies, billions of them with the possibility of life yet would hold a mere microbe called a "human being" in contempt for some moral deviance. I mean, let us assume there is intelligent life in its own peculiar form, it is impossible to know that these beings would have the same moral code as humans and if so then their set of moral standards are obviously different but seeing out moral codes may vary in the midst of all things I have to ask again why would God care?

Again strip away your religious beliefs for a moment and try to answer this question.

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Hypersonic said:

I know guys, I know, it's easy to answer this question using the basic tenants of religious text and the empirical world we see as many religionist often reminds us of our biological nature, to sustenance, to miracles. But setting all theological findings aside, why would God care? According to Astrophysicists there are about roughly 300 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, but estimates on how many galaxies show that there is roughly 100 to 200 billion galaxies. That figure to me is incomprehensible because I am so small in such a vast universe and if some creature in a vast unknown galaxy dies I wont shed a tear, not because I'm incapable of mourning for that creature or because I don't care, but because it has no effect on my life because I don't know that creature and even if I did , I haven't established enough feelings to care. I personally feel like when a human being dies in comparison to the universe it is as if a fire ant somewhere in South America has died. I personally feel no significance to this planet nor to the universe so my question is why would God care about the affairs of various beings? If you believe in aliens then this question also applies as well. It's hard to fathom why such a deity that is beyond comprehension and who, designed this universe would care about the morality of mere coporeal beings.

Why would God care whether I help an elderly lady across the street, or shoot a small child in the face? If mean if you strip the religious moral text away from this question then you come to a type of pragmatic agnosticism. I cannot fathom why or how a deity would create all these galaxies, billions of them with the possibility of life yet would hold a mere microbe called a "human being" in contempt for some moral deviance. I mean, let us assume there is intelligent life in its own peculiar form, it is impossible to know that these beings would have the same moral code as humans and if so then their set of moral standards are obviously different but seeing out moral codes may vary in the midst of all things I have to ask again why would God care?

Again strip away your religious beliefs for a moment and try to answer this question.

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