Re:Why Do I Exist?
by AnimalMuppet on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:55PM
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Interesting premise for a novel. But you tied this to your theology. Do you believe that?
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Re:Why Do I Exist?
by spiritplumber on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:12PM
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I'm a Deist, personally.
I do however believe that IF a Devil or a God or a Thanos were to show up and try to kill most of humanity (Which... if it's an actual divine being, incidentally would mean that I'm wrong about being a Deist, but I can live with that!) it would be a moral imperative to prevent them from doing so.
In that sense Avengers Endgame is a better Rapture movie than the Left Behind movies...
Re:Why Do I Exist?
by AnimalMuppet on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:54PM
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To some degree, I think God agrees with you. That's what the cross means - God trying to prevent sin from killing humanity, at an incredible cost. (I note that I'm writing this on Good Friday.)
But as you were charitable and suspected that I wouldn't like your theology, I recognize that you probably won't like mine, either...
Re:Why Do I Exist?
by spiritplumber on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:23PM
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I was raised Catholic and Evangelical, became an Atheist as soon as I could get out, and became a Deist after working with cosmologists a little. The only theology I actively dislike is Calvinism and its offshoots (Presuppositionalism and so on), mainly because they effectively paint God as playing a single-player game with humanity as the NPCs.