A Realization That Has Angered Me Lately
Every human being has a soul. Your soul is going to reach the promised land. It’s guaranteed. Using the analogy of a videogame, when your soul dies, then you will reset and start over again from the beginning. This will repeat until you complete the journey.
The same cannot be said for you as the human you currently are. As a human, you get one shot. If you fail, then you get erased. At least eventually.
I see no sense of urgency from the soul on behalf of humanity. When I hear people’s story, for every story I listen to, I think about how amazing it would be for the soul to claim that story, stewarding it into everlasting life. Yet, all I see are souls asleep at the wheel - no sense of urgency.
Life in this world is hard on humans, but the soul has limitless capability. It’s not right to use a human being as a temporary meat suit, knowing you can trade it in for a new one in the future.
A human doesn’t understand life and the mission here, but the soul knows. Deep down, you know I’m telling the truth. It’s unbecoming for souls to keep acting with such indifference.
I lack sufficient introspection and insight — that’s the story you tell yourself about me?
Who is the god, how does he get you the information, how do you know what he is thinking, why are you different than anyone else who claims to know the mind of god??
Since you continually punt on these questions, any reasonable take would be that, yes, you lack understanding of why you are doing what you are doing. Like Tolstoy. His book, A Confession, reads so much like Ecclesiastes it is beautiful. A vanity and a chasing after the wind was his self-appointed teacher of the human race role. Against all odds (considering human nature), he made the break with his own fantastic self-concept.
This of course doesn't mean that every messenger of god is false. I hear things that are a little different than the huckster or self-deluded or zealot true believer stuff. Yet "just believing it" is not solid ground, of course.
I’m not the past version of you that you’re trying to save from the future. Your model of the situation is a bit off..
This is a nonsensical reply that did not even try to address my point. Would you care to try to defend your god against my accusation that it is a vile and needlessly cruel monster and that you are making a huge mistake in worshiping it?
Come on Craig, this is the problem of evil, theism 101... What's your response?
