RE: Historical Standpoint
October 21, 2015 at 9:00 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2015 at 9:23 pm by Cyberman.
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(October 21, 2015 at 8:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: He always comes across as fairly inept for a "god."
I don't think Odin would have ever been portrayed as that much of a fuck up.
That, to me, is why the bible god is far less credible as a character than any of the polytheistic pantheons. When you have lots of gods, with separate personalities and responsibilities, the various injustices of life can be rationalised as being an ongoing drama between the gods. Sort of a theological EastEnders. Lump all of those personalities into one entity with responsibility over everything, you end up with a celestial psycho.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
