So the actual end result would be to convince me that the universe was in the hands of a monstrously insane and vicious God.
As I noted here, that is actually pretty much what I believed in the last days of my Christianity. My perspective on ethics made it more plausible to me than I suspect it would be to most people.
The whole point of Christianity (as I grew up with it) is that by manifesting Himself on earth God realized that the whole smiting people thing was passe.
I always thought the God of the New Testament was just that of the Old with better marketing, though of course I found the latter more interesting.
Eliezer, the things you are saying here about math are just the type of things I was attempting to here, but you’re much better at it.
So the actual end result would be to convince me that the universe was in the hands of a monstrously insane and vicious God. As I noted here, that is actually pretty much what I believed in the last days of my Christianity. My perspective on ethics made it more plausible to me than I suspect it would be to most people.
The whole point of Christianity (as I grew up with it) is that by manifesting Himself on earth God realized that the whole smiting people thing was passe. I always thought the God of the New Testament was just that of the Old with better marketing, though of course I found the latter more interesting.
Eliezer, the things you are saying here about math are just the type of things I was attempting to here, but you’re much better at it.