It occurred to me while playing Dragon Age Inquisition.
Corypheus, a magister/darkspawn, entered the Black City, the game's equivalent of real life's Heaven, and he found the thrones empty.
Therefore, he decided that he would become a god in a world where people prayed and did not have their prayers answered because there were no gods to answer those prayers.
In essence, doesn't him making himself a god make him a theist?
After all, in our world today merely the belief in a god makes one a theist, even if there is no evidence of that god's existence.
Corypheus, a magister/darkspawn, entered the Black City, the game's equivalent of real life's Heaven, and he found the thrones empty.
Therefore, he decided that he would become a god in a world where people prayed and did not have their prayers answered because there were no gods to answer those prayers.
In essence, doesn't him making himself a god make him a theist?
After all, in our world today merely the belief in a god makes one a theist, even if there is no evidence of that god's existence.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
~ Erin Hunter