The Plan

[brewer]

Yep, extinction is the plan. With horsies!

[zwanzig]

That was one of the things that had me feeling secure about Mormonism, back when I was a believer. They knew the Plan, whereas it felt like other Christian denominations didn't have a clear idea or outline. According to LDS theology, we are all the spirit children of a god who made us all with his many wives in the pre-existence. Our purpose down here is to gain bodies of flesh, learn how to control them and those baser instincts, and if you do it well enough (read: pay enough tithing) then in the next realm YOU get to become a god of your own planet and have tons of spirit children with your many wives. Only men get to though. Women are required to become just the wife of a god and be present for godly procreation. They call it eternal progress, and it is the ultimate fulfillment of our potential as human beings.

At the time I had faith in it, the plan made sense to me and defined my place in the world. Now, I can only think of the horror of an endless god-making factory. It isn't as full of the good feeling wholesome sense of purpose that I originally thought it was.

[h4ym4n]

I wonder if toilet paper was ever part of the big plan.

[Silver]

I don't know about a plan, but I've got an agenda.

[no one]

The religious do sling plenty of shit.

[Spongebob]

Adding additional pretend ideas to an already pretend position doesn't make anything more clear.  And you're one to talk.  If you aren't a Christian, then you aren't part of his plan.  Any Christian will tell you that.

Everyone is part of God's Plan, not just Christians.

If you aren't a Christian, then whether you believe in god or not, you aren't worshiping the "right" god, so you aren't part of the plan.  This is basic Christian thinking, not mine.

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Dinosaurs included?

Of course!  Those are there to confuse the easily gullible and get them out of the way so the true believers have more space!

[Ahriman]

If you aren't a Christian, then whether you believe in god or not, you aren't worshiping the "right" god, so you aren't part of the plan.  This is basic Christian thinking, not mine.

I don't care what Christians think. Stop using that as a metric.

[Spongebob]

If you aren't a Christian, then whether you believe in god or not, you aren't worshiping the "right" god, so you aren't part of the plan.  This is basic Christian thinking, not mine.

I don't care what Christians think. Stop using that as a metric.

But they outnumber you, a billion to 1.  Should I use Muslims, instead?  Or should I just accept what you say is right because you have some special link with god?  And what god would that be, anyway?  Zeus?  Zarathustra?  Woden?

[Silver]

A god by any other name is just as imaginary.

[Spongebob]

A god by any other name is just as imaginary.

But Woden is just so much cooler, don't you think?