(February 4, 2012 at 2:55 pm)SophiaGrace Wrote:(February 4, 2012 at 2:50 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Seems quite difficult for theists Sophi
They just don't want to accept it!
"omg how can people not believe in god!" they say, and then, before their mind can exploded with the incomprehensible reality that people don't believe in God, they go on an evangelism rampage.
My take on it is it's because they find the thought that they just might have to take responsibility for their own lives such a terrifying one that they simply cannot function in society without the protective bubblewrap of ridiculously childish mythology around their brains. It's sort of the reverse of the accusation usually levelled at us, that we know their pet god exists but choose to deny it because we enjoy sinning too much to defer responsibility to a higher authority, albeit an imaginary one.
The difference between these two opposing views is my version is by far the most likely.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
