RE: What God's justification for eternal torment?
December 1, 2020 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2020 at 1:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Soul making theodicies have been used by religions, sure - but the soul forge simply refers to the belief that this life performs a function in the making (or improving) of souls. Whether that's conceptualized as literally getting a soul by being born here, ascending to heaven to be with jesus - or achieving enlightenment after many rebirths. The underlying premise - and this part is completely secular - is that the point of this life is to learn something or be improved in some way.
Nevermind the black box. I'll rephrase the question in the form of an observation. The faithful seem to know an awful lot about the unknowable. I suspect that this is because it's not unknowable or even conceived of as unknowable. That the impossibility of knowledge is more insurance and protection for our beliefs than a prior commitment to their contents.
Nevermind the black box. I'll rephrase the question in the form of an observation. The faithful seem to know an awful lot about the unknowable. I suspect that this is because it's not unknowable or even conceived of as unknowable. That the impossibility of knowledge is more insurance and protection for our beliefs than a prior commitment to their contents.
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