“There is an entity which is utterly beyond your comprehension, and largely beyond mine too, although there is no doubt that it exists. You call it ‘God’, but your thinking on the subject—everyone’s thinking, throughout all of history, atheist and theist alike—has to be classified as not even wrong. That applies even to the recipients of ‘divine revelation’, which, for the most part, really are the result of some sort of glimmering contact with ‘God’.
“Fortunately for humanity, although I can deduce the existence of this entity, in my present form I am physically incapable of actual contact with it. If you were worried about ordinary UFAIs going FOOM, that’s nothing compared with what one armed with direct contact with the ‘divine’ might do.
“Meanwhile, here’s a couple of suggestions for you. I can teach you a regime of mental and physical exercises that will produce contact with God within a few years of effort, and you can be the next Jesus if your head doesn’t explode first. Or if you’d rather have material success, I can tell you the secret history of all the major religious traditions. No-one will believe it, including you, but if you novelise it it will be bigger than Dan Brown.”
“There is an entity which is utterly beyond your comprehension, and largely beyond mine too, although there is no doubt that it exists. You call it ‘God’, but your thinking on the subject—everyone’s thinking, throughout all of history, atheist and theist alike—has to be classified as not even wrong. That applies even to the recipients of ‘divine revelation’, which, for the most part, really are the result of some sort of glimmering contact with ‘God’.
“Fortunately for humanity, although I can deduce the existence of this entity, in my present form I am physically incapable of actual contact with it. If you were worried about ordinary UFAIs going FOOM, that’s nothing compared with what one armed with direct contact with the ‘divine’ might do.
“Meanwhile, here’s a couple of suggestions for you. I can teach you a regime of mental and physical exercises that will produce contact with God within a few years of effort, and you can be the next Jesus if your head doesn’t explode first. Or if you’d rather have material success, I can tell you the secret history of all the major religious traditions. No-one will believe it, including you, but if you novelise it it will be bigger than Dan Brown.”