Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism

[Rev. Rye]

Does literally anyone expect that their deeds will transcend space and time? Even in Becker, while it's been years since I've read him, I don't think the immortality projects he talks about are even supposed to go quite as far as that. Creating something that will leave an impact for generations to come, yeah, but outright transcending space and time?

Yes!  Most people at least hope, one way or another, to achieve any of the many kinds of immortality humans have described and sought. A god gifting it is such a narrow slice of that. This world can outlast me but not withstand me. No prison can hold me, and I'll be getting out of here over the walls or under them. It's not my home, I'm just passing through. I've got pretty low odds for establishing something that lasts to the very end...but every day I wake up and stack more blocks to that effect.

Fair enough. I have to admit, the more our malware friend here decided to talk about what he meant, the more I wound up wondering about what he even meant by accomplishments that "transcend space and time." Especially since he seems to think the fact that Mozart's music living on 230 years after his death is somehow comparable to the fact that we still know who Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer 30+ years after their deaths. It's like the only thing he thinks would suffice is something that goes on long after the human race no longer exists on Earth.