The popularity of the fantasy genre strongly suggests that any notion that people who don't believe are being guided by some desire for the world to be bereft of magical beasties is wrong on it's face. We escape our day to day grinds by diving into worlds chock full of them.
That's always been a thing, and it's always been contributing to religious narratives.....but what you're likely to get here is people cutting right through the nonsense of loaded questions and assumptions and fantasy dreamlands and thinking..."man, if the world really was full of these characters...would it actually be all that great?" Well, by reference to the stories themselves, probably not. On the one hand the notion of a world full of carnivorous shapeshifters is cool...but I wouldn't want to have to barricade my house to keep them from eating my kids. Similarly, the loving gods™ of the questions construction appear to be in the business of doling out alot of stuff that doesn't immediately strike a person as loving...and it's not as if love can't go wrong. If the world contained a god that deeply loved me, but I wasn't interested..for example..it would be a world that contained an immensely powerful stalker.
That's always been a thing, and it's always been contributing to religious narratives.....but what you're likely to get here is people cutting right through the nonsense of loaded questions and assumptions and fantasy dreamlands and thinking..."man, if the world really was full of these characters...would it actually be all that great?" Well, by reference to the stories themselves, probably not. On the one hand the notion of a world full of carnivorous shapeshifters is cool...but I wouldn't want to have to barricade my house to keep them from eating my kids. Similarly, the loving gods™ of the questions construction appear to be in the business of doling out alot of stuff that doesn't immediately strike a person as loving...and it's not as if love can't go wrong. If the world contained a god that deeply loved me, but I wasn't interested..for example..it would be a world that contained an immensely powerful stalker.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
