I have on seldom occasion met a Christian who I agree with at any significant theological level. Any in depth conversation with these people nearly always ends with them calling me a Satanist.. in so many words. "I'm leading people from God, I'm making things too complicated, I'm ignorant, stupid, heretical."
Why?
Simply because I maintain that a Christian's foremost duty is to abstain as much as possible from sinful behavior. This throws these so called people of God into a fit. The Protestants are the worst of the sects. For a people who "don't interpret God's word," they sure do interpret circles around "if your right hand offend against thee, cut it off."
I now realize that what I am arguing against is not a logical theology. By a vast margin, people turn to God as a cope. They are unhappy with the state of the world, unhappy with their lives, frustrated with lack of success, seek healing and comfort. Perhaps I am guilty of this as well in some sense. It is an emotional adjournment as the result of some trauma. Yes, God will be your high tower. But what does Christ say to the rich man who asks *what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?*
The answer, *if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.* So yes, there are terms on eternal life; Jesus lists various conditions multiple times.
However the average Christian is far from a zealot. This is a person who seeks one thing from God and to disrupt the uninvolved ease at which he believes the end is obtained has confronted his desire of comfort. He wants to sin, and by simply feigning ignorance of scripture he believes that he receives both the world of the flesh and the spirit. But what does Jesus say?
I came closer to the concept of what a deity could be. A simulation. You are the user, you run a simulation, and it plays out with an initial state over time. Now, a computer is quite powerful, so you can run many simulations and have them be played out at rapid speed. In that case, do you care what happens? If you have 500 simulations each with millions of data points? You may look into it arbitrarily, maybe to find some anomaly or bug.
Applied to real-life, this is what is possible: There is a deity that is not subject to space, time and possibly logic itself, as everything in the universe is, and the entire universe is created for an unknown reason (curiosity?) by unknown means starting and ending after a lot of time. Humans just happened to be one short-lived outcome somewhere in all of it - a little spark, only perceptible if you pay very close attention. Time is only a thing for us because we live and perceive time at a pace of 1 second per second.
In fact the entirety of the universe, where things actually happen, like planets forming, stars shining, black holes consuming, moons orbiting is a tiny spark, whereas the heat death and entropy is like 99%+ of its total lifetime. The good stuff happens in a tiny fraction of its lifetime - just like how an explosion is special for a short moment, and then it's just smoke. And what is actually relevant is the filament of the structure of galaxy clusters, or whatever pattern governs that.
To say "existence is a simulation" is selling it short, as if Earth is the main character. But why would it be? Given the vastness of the observed universe, how arrogant is it to believe that we are special? What if life on Earth is akin to mold on bread - are you excited about that? Life on Earth existed for 3-4 billion years, and 2000 years is 0.0005% of that. That's the time span where we are special to God, right?
Anyway, I don't believe any of this either. But it is more plausible than an omnipotent deity intervening in trivial parts of our lives. Of course this means muslims are retarded with their sandnigger pedo deity, jews are retarded to worship a malevolent fire deity, and streetshitters are retarded to worship... whatever the fuck they have. All of these religions are an extension of the general behaviors and cultures of people.
But people need religion. 95%+ do not function well without it. Somehow morality gets discarded without it, meaning of life too, the concept of honor too. There are a lot of benefits to be religious, but it is a luxury that requires wilful ignorance, and considering ignorance a virtue. The "I believe despite evidence" stance, or even getting emboldened by opposition. The process of rationalization - putting your cognitive abilities into work to make sense of the nonsense.
Whatever change needs to occur in our countries (extermination of niggers and kikes), Christianity has to support it. Or a new religion has to take its place that does. The absence of religion is poison to a culture, and jews latch onto it.
Maybe I am simple minded: I hate niggers because they are subhuman filth, I hate kikes because they are like malevolent demons that also haul in niggers, I hate faggots because they fell to degeneracy and spread it. I ONLY want to deal with Whites, everyone else (not Japanese) is some kind of garbage that is best exterminated. The ideal is to have entire planet to only consist of Whites. What religion stands for that? None.
It depends on the imagination. The scope of God can not be comprehended, but, there is a certain invisible bond which relates between creatures. For instance, if you read the "US Army Special Operations Sniper Training and Employment," it warns the operator against looking directly and intently at a person. This is because of a documented phenomenon called "gaze detection." An animal, humans included, can *somehow* sense another staring or stalking, without any sense being triggered. The "detection" can cause emotional distress.
This is one single example of a metaphysical bond between animals and this bond has such a range that recon and snipers are warned about it. The Almighty, who wrought the elements from nothing (breaking the laws of thermodynamics) may communicate with his creation through a similar manner. If the mere stare of an otherwise undetected animal can arouse anxiety, is it far fetched to wonder if the Omnipotent God could use the same invisible avenue to invoke certain emotions?
>Paragraphs 2-6.. Anyway, I don't believe any of this either
I won't get too deep into rebutting a hypothetical but....
>Humans just happened to be one short-lived outcome somewhere in all of it
And there is a reason for this. There simply must be. Consider the impossibility of what you are and what you are seeing. Literally what the absolute fuck is going on right now? Our Being is imbedded in this form, made of an uncountable number of microscopic things, *hosting* an uncountable number of microscopic things and because of this we are endowed with sensation??? We are born into this delusion and life is delivered because seed is placed into a womb?! Do you honestly think this is chance? That the dumb universe accidently brought this thing that I am, and the thing that you are, in to existence without reason?
>But it is more plausible than an omnipotent deity intervening in trivial parts of our lives
But you are that life. You are the main character, not the Earth. You see things via your perspective. The God, with never ending "computing power" also sees through this perspective. You design video games as have I.. Imagine a master script that manages all the NPCs. This script knows the x,y,z position of every NPC, it knows their health, knows what their next location is going to be, knows *all* possible locations they could go, understands the chances of them moving to any of those locations. It knows their abilities, it knows whatever "if" statements are associated with them, it knows what gear they are wearing and what stats they have. It knows their aggro range. It knows everything between them all equally. Not one is more significant than the other; none are overlooked. They die and spawn, but the master script remains. Without the master script, they are nothing. But without them, the master script is pointless.
>But people need religion
And there is a reason for this. Our souls speak of our Creator and our physical form listens.
>it is a luxury that requires wilful ignorance, and considering ignorance a virtue
This is true. I have abandoned science and have even gone as far to completely discard the theory of evolution. Willfully. Why? Because pondering this served me no profit but rather acted as a stumblingblock in discovering man's nature.
>Christianity has to support it
Christianity will never support it but there are no practical, honorable and dignified alternatives. Besides Jesus Christ is the incarnation of the Almighty God and any religion that seeks to abandon Christ has abandoned his Father.
It's probably a rare phenomenon and just the result of randomness. If a person is longer outside, and he is watched for a longer time, he is likely to look around and eventually see something. If I were a soldier, I'd be even more suspicious and careful about my surroundings. I don't think this has ever been properly tested, and it's just assumed.
> Do you honestly think this is chance?
No. A process (evolution) spanning billions of years can result in that. The actual question is how that even started - life must have emerged from non-life somehow, and the size of it was microscopic or smaller. But even here we have a survival bias - if it didn't happen, we wouldn't be asking why it didn't happen. Maybe it's a universal phenomenon we don't know about. Maybe we have a false perception of what "life" actually is - because ultimately everything consists of atoms and molecules. A car for example can move, but it's not alive - so is it something between non-life and life? What if we are just elaborate machines with the ability to move, regenerate and reproduce?
> But you are that life. You are the main character, not the Earth.
How do you know? Dogs are also life, ants too, bacteria too, viruses... are on the verge of it. Wouldn't it be arrogant of us to believe we are special only because we have the ability to think? What if black holes are the main characters, but are incapable to think? What if every being with sufficient intelligence to think considers themselves special?
This has no implication on my actual life btw. I exist, I have instinctual drives, I have purposes, biological processes make me feel good or bad - I don't care who or what the main attraction in the universe is.
> They die and spawn, but the master script remains. Without the master script, they are nothing. But without them, the master script is pointless.
That's a good analogy. That assumes life in general is an intended outcome rather than a coincidence though. Imagine a simulation in which you just want to test what happens when you have a certain set of physical rules and have a super-huge amount of matter in one place. And it immediately explodes and scatters matter and energy into every direction. But the matter swirls around and takes forms, and develops patterns. Then you grab a coffee and when you return it's the heat death phase where nothing happens anymore.
And after you return and wonder why the thing exploded, your physical rules somehow causes dust on planets, which orbit stars, which orbit galaxies, which fly through space, turn into microscopic things that behave erratically. And while you were gone, it changed form microscopic things into multi-cellular entities, which do things. After the host star is depleted of energy, all these entities just die out.
But even if you were there at the monitor, you wouldn't have noticed, because it's something so tiny in relation to the bigger things. Stars were already like short-lived sparks to you. If you knew, you'd be interested in it, sure, but you didn't expect life to occur at all.
> and any religion that seeks to abandon Christ has abandoned his Father.
Religions existed long before Christianity existed. The Greeks and Romans also had religions with multiple deities. The northern tribes believed in Valhalla. The concept of a singular deity as today was simply not what people believed in for millennia - they didn't abandon Christ or his father.