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I recently read a history of western ethical philosophy and the argument boiled down to this: Without God or deity, human experience/life has no goals or process to work towards and therefore no need for ethics. Humans ARE in fact ethical and behave as though working towards some purpose, so therefore that purpose must exist and therefore god exists.
This view was frustrating to no end. Do humans have to prescribe purpose to the universe in order to satisfy some psychological need?
What is the goal or process supposed to be in the presence of God? Get to heaven and experience eternal happy-fun-time?
Something grand-sounding but incomprehensible, like every other God-of-the-gaps answer.
Charitably, the same as the goal in the presence of a Friendly singularity.
You're not supposed to ask. Hence the phrase semantic stopsign.
The goal in the presence of God is to continue to worship God. Forever. To people actually worshiping God right now, this seems wonderful. Or, at least, they say it does, and I don't see any reason to disbelieve them.