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RE: "Nice Guy" Jesus: Is the Love of the Biblical God Really Unconditional?
Interesting! I have a similar perspective, as a naturalistic pantheist. God being all living things means that when one person attacks another, God is both the aggressor and the victim. Some would say it's a confusing, alien notion that God should embody both the best and worst of all things in existence simultaneously because the popular imagining of God is a solely benevolent being.
But if that were true, God would be incomplete, lacking malice. A God which is maximally good and bad baffles many, because why worship such a being? But then again, why would a supreme being demand worship? Why would it even desire such a thing?
I think of religious worship towards God as in a trap of the churches. The worship of God should not be blind or full of chants but should be totally silent. Silent is a sacred but also aristocratic characteristic. For something God does not speak. And if he did, it was through his supposed son, Jesus.
Dr. Manhattan is a puppet of his indifference, the result of his intelligence. A God who does not intervene or does not intervene, does a lot.
One that has the power to dismantle all the weapons of the world to avoid wars, or simply not to do so by understanding human nature.
Dr. Manhattan represents the missing link between God and man. We can not understand God in its full dimension, but we can understand a little to that blue human who looks like him. Then we understand that the extrapolation of indifference is simply being.
From there, to pantheism there are few steps. Moreover, the silence and distance of God is understood, as if even God were the existence itself and nothing else.
It can be freedom, or it can be slavery.
Now the man full of faith is also very interesting. Especially when faith trembles and contradicts itself
Fascinating insights. Have a follow.
Thanks Alex. This was a very good subject to discuss. Surely there will be others in the future. See you.