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dreamer_easy) wrote2007-08-21 02:45 pm
dreamer_easy) wrote2007-08-21 02:45 pm
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Further to my last posting about that notable young man of Middle Eastern appearance: one of the many Christian groups on campus are having a lecture series called "If I were God I would..." . Tomorrow's lecture is titled "If I were God I would end all suffering". (This will of course be an explanation of why God doesn't, in fact, end all suffering.)
Now many concepts are readily translatable from one religion to another, but what this question actually means is, "If I were omnipotent I would..." Looked at one way, my own deities are not omnipotent; looked at another way, the question is meaningless, as my own gods aren't bureaucrats or generals organising the universe from outside. In fact, I agree with Thorkild Jacobsen's analysis in Treasures of Darkness: the idea of the chief god as a ruler whose word is law, with many ministers in the form of lesser gods, developed when human societies themselves became organised in this way.
Now many concepts are readily translatable from one religion to another, but what this question actually means is, "If I were omnipotent I would..." Looked at one way, my own deities are not omnipotent; looked at another way, the question is meaningless, as my own gods aren't bureaucrats or generals organising the universe from outside. In fact, I agree with Thorkild Jacobsen's analysis in Treasures of Darkness: the idea of the chief god as a ruler whose word is law, with many ministers in the form of lesser gods, developed when human societies themselves became organised in this way.
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