Dilemma for theists!

[Angrboda]

Oddly I feel strangely both overqualified and underqualified to answer this poll.


I must also make passing remark upon the religious ignorance implicit in its framing. I worship a Goddess who only wants to gently ease you out of the illusion that is reality and into the truth that only suffuses us in the non-existence of death. No heaven. No hell. No souls.


Even as a simplification of Abrahamanic traditions it's astoundingly blind to historic Judaism. If Kali will not greet me at my end, let Sheol take me over and deliver me unto a mind numbing experience which can't be particular harsh when compared to the experience of working a year or two at a McDonald's restaurant.

I rather enjoy Chadwooter's rather blinkingly simple solution, echoing the Qabbalistic conception of nearness or farness from God. If you're going to live your life in a fantasy world, it might as well be one with a pleasing aesthetic, but perhaps that's the mathematician in me talking. I'm reminded of the tantalizing description of Emmy Noether's laws which imply that wherever you have symmetry in natural law a law of conservation automatically results. Maybe the Chadwooter theory of God results in a theological foundation for sneaking the law of Karma into an already holy religion. I must confess wonder at a God who is always there if you but call upon him is somehow mysteriously elsewhere when you need him most, and have lost any capacity to do anything about it. Maybe this is Schrodinger's God.

Meng Po Niang, brew me your strongest tea.