RE: Free Will vs Divine Won't - How God Favours Evil
March 30, 2012 at 12:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2012 at 1:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's easy to do better than someone who isn't doing anything at all. I think the promethean element of the fall of lucifer is probably lost on you, so I;m really not sure where this conversation could possibly go between us? See, I love this narrative and I could talk your ear off about it (did you know that almost every culture has such a narrative), but I'm not so smitten with a fairy tale that I would stand here and try to convince others (or myself) that it has anything to do with a god, or demons, or a magical war etc.
This isn't exactly a big glaring mystery for those who are interested. It's only a mystery for those who manufacture it as such. You see I'd be having a conversation about how we have a tendency to establish authority for our spiritual concepts in the same manner that we go about establishing authority for ourselves (a damning indictment, but again only if you're actually interested), or how these narratives have been refined to be effective from a great many angles (beyond simply establishing authority this narrative can also speak to our seemingly collective anxiety and antipathy towards authority)...but you'd be asking me why I don't like your invisible friend. One can imagine how dissatisfying this would be for both parties, yes?
This isn't exactly a big glaring mystery for those who are interested. It's only a mystery for those who manufacture it as such. You see I'd be having a conversation about how we have a tendency to establish authority for our spiritual concepts in the same manner that we go about establishing authority for ourselves (a damning indictment, but again only if you're actually interested), or how these narratives have been refined to be effective from a great many angles (beyond simply establishing authority this narrative can also speak to our seemingly collective anxiety and antipathy towards authority)...but you'd be asking me why I don't like your invisible friend. One can imagine how dissatisfying this would be for both parties, yes?
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