My ex-wife was worried that reanimation would yank my soul from heaven, resulting in a horrific “omg real life is complete hell in comparison” sixth-season-Buffy type of existence. I think I managed to convince her that no all-powerful deity could have his divine plans thwarted by something as puny as human technology.
My ex-wife was worried that reanimation would yank my soul from heaven, resulting in a horrific “omg real life is complete hell in comparison” sixth-season-Buffy type of existence.
Hey, if that’s the price one needs to pay to get a musical episode...
Eternal torture seems pretty unpleasant. I can understand fearing that. As to meaning, I don’t know how it is relevant either way, but at the same time, I don’t quite understand what people are talking about when they try to say whether or not life has meaning. Tabooing meaning seems to not be possible. Moreover, when one asks them something like “should an intelligent cow be happy that its life has meaning, to provide food for humans” people say that that isn’t what they are talking about.
(Assuming that heaven and immaterial souls are real) The possibility of re-animation might mean that you’re not really dead yet, and this might trap your soul in your body until you become irreversibly dead. Essentially sentencing you to limbo for the duration of your deep freeze.
I can’t figure out what christians believe about god’s engineering abilities. Intelligent Design advocates portray god as an inventor and engineer, notably of molecular biology; yet humans have invented things no theist ever thought of attributing to a god, like computers. That probably explains why some christians accuse biotechnologists, but not computer and software engineers, of “playing god.”
My ex-wife was worried that reanimation would yank my soul from heaven, resulting in a horrific “omg real life is complete hell in comparison” sixth-season-Buffy type of existence. I think I managed to convince her that no all-powerful deity could have his divine plans thwarted by something as puny as human technology.
Hey, if that’s the price one needs to pay to get a musical episode...
Why do christians fear hell so much, any way? Doesn’t hell demonstrate that human existence has meaning, even the existence of the damned?
Eternal torture seems pretty unpleasant. I can understand fearing that. As to meaning, I don’t know how it is relevant either way, but at the same time, I don’t quite understand what people are talking about when they try to say whether or not life has meaning. Tabooing meaning seems to not be possible. Moreover, when one asks them something like “should an intelligent cow be happy that its life has meaning, to provide food for humans” people say that that isn’t what they are talking about.
(Assuming that heaven and immaterial souls are real) The possibility of re-animation might mean that you’re not really dead yet, and this might trap your soul in your body until you become irreversibly dead. Essentially sentencing you to limbo for the duration of your deep freeze.
Also taken care of by the “an all-powerful god can’t be thwarted by my mere technology” argument. Omnipotence is a VERY general counterargument.
I can’t figure out what christians believe about god’s engineering abilities. Intelligent Design advocates portray god as an inventor and engineer, notably of molecular biology; yet humans have invented things no theist ever thought of attributing to a god, like computers. That probably explains why some christians accuse biotechnologists, but not computer and software engineers, of “playing god.”