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[Sergius]

When one dies, in said world, the St Peter equivalent gatekeeper to heaven checks to see if you've been rational about the world.  Belief in a deity (indeed, even in a Deity Of Logic) is a black mark.

Congratulations! If a God of Logic exists, you're now on his naughty list!

[Starver]

Congratulations! If a God of Logic exists, you're now on his naughty list!

I'll have been for a while, if He's that petty about such things.


I'm more worried about whether I'm causing other people's immortal souls to be sullied by talking about this.

(Similar to an argument against missionaries.  With no missionaries, the ungodly heathens are unaware of God and therefore (by some counts) are given a free pass into heaven (purgatory, at the very least), just like newborns who die are.  With missionaries telling them about God, they're no longer covered by that clause, and so if they don't fully convert they're damned.  YMissionaryPositionMV.)

[Andir]

It could be that the fire-and-forget God, despite being able to work out what would happen if He thought about it (as every deity worth His or Her pillar-of-salt should be able to do), hasn't cared to do so.

Speaking of salt... there's also the possibility that said GOL knows what happens to the salt when it's tossed over one's shoulder and lands in water.  It just may not care.

[1] Perhaps as one in any number of slightly different universes in a multiverse.  Another one of my long-time analogies is that a hypothetical God's kitchen table has an infinite number of jam-jars on it, each having a different 'mix' of universe, some are spluttering and shaking and threatening to spill their contents, others are quietly changing colour, some are just sitting inert.  So, if there is a God, it's a question as to whether we're sputtering along or just sitting around like gunk, and which one of these are more likely to be taken off the table and chucked down the sink, rather than let sit there, or perhaps given the occasional stir...

... or this God may not know that the jar on the far left has something sentient in it when it goes to dump this boring fluid down the drain.

But like you say... "Another Occam-worthy act of disregarding, really."

I'm more worried about whether I'm causing other people's immortal souls to be sullied by talking about this.

My position is that any "caring" GOL would want his creations to think about it and not blindly follow orders... it would want people "stirring the pot"  (If it cared that is, and we are not merely salt particles being tossed in water.)

[ChairmanPoo]

...I find your answers concerning the meaning of "anagoge" wanting...

[Shrugging Khan]

I'm new to this thread and what is this.
Seriously, 3xx pages? You must've tossed every straw man there is into this one.

So what's up in this topic? Where's the discussion stranded ATM?

And a snippet: Actual belief in any manner of deity supposed to interact with the physical world is either delusional or highly unreasonable.

[Ampersand]

This thread is either about Rome Total War, Cheese, or Ninjas. I forget.

[Realmfighter]

We must dedicate this thread to modding cheese based ninjas into Rome Total War.

[ToonyMan]

ignore me

[darkflagrance]

We must dedicate this thread to modding cheese based ninjas into Rome Total War.

I always wanted to play RTW, but when it came out my old computer was too crappy to run it, and now I simply haven't got the time

[The Doctor]

ignore me

Don't we always?

[Shrugging Khan]

I always wanted to play RTW, but when it came out my old computer was too crappy to run it, and now I simply haven't got the time

Ooooh...I've suffered exactly the same fate. Shame really...I'd love to play some EB, but I can't be arsed to bother with another full campaign 

This thread, though. There's no more religious-bashing to be done in it, is there?

[MaximumZero]

That all depends. Would everyone hate me if I made a Family Guy reference?

[Realmfighter]

I hate you already, get on with it.

[BigJake]

I think I'm going to have to mod falxs and rhomphaiai into my next df game.  I can't get sucked into that game again, last time I blinked and 3 months went by.

[MaximumZero]

Bible fight!

Okay, I'm done, now stop hating me, Realm.