RE: God, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy
December 7, 2021 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2021 at 8:41 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's more tenable than admitting that their gods, as conceived, are the mouthpieces of a kindergarten deontology- stubbornly held into adulthood.
That is how gods are both similar, and differ, from santa and the tooth fairy. None of them are real things, they all stand in as a comment on how we should act and how things should be. I think it's strange that we allow for maturity when dealing with santa and fairies. Somehow....they end up being the more well developed and rational of the two. Seemlessly transitioning into communal experience of a commercial outpouring, and the value of teeth. Gods, not so much. Grown ass people telling us how the world should be on the word of a dead rabbi....and, somehow, all of it hateful. But no, it's vry srs business.
Hide the eggs!
That is how gods are both similar, and differ, from santa and the tooth fairy. None of them are real things, they all stand in as a comment on how we should act and how things should be. I think it's strange that we allow for maturity when dealing with santa and fairies. Somehow....they end up being the more well developed and rational of the two. Seemlessly transitioning into communal experience of a commercial outpouring, and the value of teeth. Gods, not so much. Grown ass people telling us how the world should be on the word of a dead rabbi....and, somehow, all of it hateful. But no, it's vry srs business.
Hide the eggs!
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