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?
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.