(December 12, 2017 at 6:21 pm)Sal Wrote: I have a hard time even recollecting what I've dreamt the night before.
I’ve had plenty of nightmares in my life, but absolutely none of them involved satan or hell. Not even in my early years when I was essentially playing at being Catholic. I’ve never feared those things because they’re utterly absurd. Might as well have nightmares of violent Gold Finches or something. At least they have the benefit of being real.
My nightmares are far more mundane. Most take the form of school related stress, where I’ve forgotten to do something and there was impending negative consequences because of it.
Good and evil aren’t cosmic forces. There’s no war for souls going on. Indeed, if souls were a thing, they’d be detectable.
The idea that every person is of divine importance is a core component of Christianity’s whiplash humble brag nature. They’re simultaneously worthless and nothing without their god, yet satan is hiding in their cereal, just waiting for them to slip and succumb to temptation, because they’re that important to him.
It’s stupid. Most people are of no consequence outside of their little circle of family and friends. Most people’s impact on the world is, for all intents and purposes, null. We will all die, and the universe will move on, uncaring.
