(April 8, 2021 at 4:44 pm)Five Wrote:(April 8, 2021 at 4:10 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Way to stretch a metaphor.
OK I put it to you that the "heaven" you propose is open only to those who want to become zombies. Zombies are automatons which seek only a single goal mindlessly. That is what your "heaven" would make of anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in it. A zombie with the sole purpose of praising the non existent god forever, for fuck all reason, fuck all recompense or reward and fuck all point.
In your messed up theology, if such it can be called, your god is an insecure weakling entirely dependent on zombies to mindlessly do his bidding. Satan, in your system, had a point. Satan at least had the bottle to say "Fuck this for a game" and leave. Frankly, so would I. And that torpedoes your whole claim that there is no free will in heaven. If that were true, there would be no Satan.
Has anyone written this as a novel yet? That would be a book I might read.
Okay, so, it plays out like an almost "by the book" zombie story but at some point, it is found out that the setting is actually heaven. The zombies are the dead humans that have come to heaven to worship God forever and our ragtag team of survivors are actually angels...or something. They all have to get to the earth gate and transport below and warn everyone not to become Christian because taking the blood and body of Christ is actually a contract you sign into, so when you die, you go to heaven and become a walking mindless creature that eats nonbelievers. If you die without signing the contract, you just die normal, disappearing forever. They fight through heaven to get to the gate losing the members of their group one by one until there's just two of them left. They make it to the gate but in fighting the guards, one of them is injured. So, the other angel has to go down alone.
Book two follows the renegade angel on earth battling the evil forces of heaven as some of the enslaved Christians are already unthinking, mindless creatures. His mission is to pull the curtain back and expose the cruel, egomaniacal wizard in the other dimension, heaven.
This could work, you guys.
Could make for a good read, sure enough. My creative writing alas would not be sufficient to that task.
