RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 12, 2023 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2023 at 4:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's absolutely nothing preventing a god from being exactly as malevolent as gods are often portrayed to be..in reality. That should be an instructive fact....we don't often think about it, but we're pretty damned fortunate that no all powerful djinn exists to want to soul forge us.
That, if it were a real thing, could be pretty horrific. That flesh eating bacteria really doesn't exist accidentally or incidentally, it exists to eat us, to teach us, to improve us by whatever metrics the creator god of flesh eating bacteria has in mind. The dangers in the cosmos immediately multiply. It's not just the environmental shit we have to deal with, we didn't just forget to take our antibiotics, we also have to dodge the active bolts of a nutball god. A god who, even if we took our antibiotics, would invent some other damned thing to eat us just so it could continue to mold the clay to whatever private end it had. Incomprehensible and tragic to it's human subjects....even with everything going right™.
That, if it were a real thing, could be pretty horrific. That flesh eating bacteria really doesn't exist accidentally or incidentally, it exists to eat us, to teach us, to improve us by whatever metrics the creator god of flesh eating bacteria has in mind. The dangers in the cosmos immediately multiply. It's not just the environmental shit we have to deal with, we didn't just forget to take our antibiotics, we also have to dodge the active bolts of a nutball god. A god who, even if we took our antibiotics, would invent some other damned thing to eat us just so it could continue to mold the clay to whatever private end it had. Incomprehensible and tragic to it's human subjects....even with everything going right™.
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