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If there are no gods, doesn't making one's self a god make one a theist?
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If there are no gods, doesn't making one's self a god make one a theist?
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.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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If there are no gods, doesn't making one's self a god make one a theist? - by Foxaèr - May 20, 2017 at 4:31 pm

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