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Personally, I would just sit back and watch things happen with the one twist: mankind would be intellectually incapable of devising a god figure. As god, I could do such a thing. The world would be kind of the opposite as it is now where there really is no god but yet most people believe one exists. As god, I would exist but no one would believe in me.
In my world, women would have equal rights where today there are religion-imposed restrictions in many places on earth. Gays would be free to marry in the U.S, and would be free to come out of the shadows in other lands. The list of positive changes would be a long one, and as god I would be there to witness all of it. It would not be "the glory of no god" because god (me) would exist. What there would be is "the glory of no religion". And as god, I would rejoice in mankind's religionless world.
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Being a god would be a lonely, pointless existence. You would have no challenges in life because everything would happen just the way you want it. You would have no friends because no one would be your equal.
So if I were a god, I would change myself into something mortal. Maybe an Orca. I could just swim around and eat seals all day. But then I would miss my usual lunch of tacos and pizza.
Face it. There ain't nuthin better than being a human. Time for lunch.
This question is useless and will only serve as a sort of written "straight man" so as to allow some of the always entertaining and amusing atheists here to flaunt some of their patented wry humor and sarcastic musings.
Asking a mortal what they would do if they were GOd is like asking your pet goldfish what changes he would make to the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, or how he might better edit Joyce's Ulysses.
Personally, I would just sit back and watch things happen with the one twist: mankind would be intellectually incapable of devising a god figure. As god, I could do such a thing. The world would be kind of the opposite as it is now where there really is no god but yet most people believe one exists. As god, I would exist but no one would believe in me.
In my world, women would have equal rights where today there are religion-imposed restrictions in many places on earth. Gays would be free to marry in the U.S, and would be free to come out of the shadows in other lands. The list of positive changes would be a long one, and as god I would be there to witness all of it. It would not be "the glory of no god" because god (me) would exist. What there would be is "the glory of no religion". And as god, I would rejoice in mankind's religionless world.
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If your plan is to do nothing but sit back and watch, how will you arrange the societal modifications which you endorse above? Either you are an inactive observer or you are interventionist for your perception of good, but I do not see how you could be both simultaneously.
Quit my day job.
Consign animal abusers to the fires of hell.
And on the seventh day, I'd rest.
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