RE: "Nice Guy" Jesus: Is the Love of the Biblical God Really Unconditional?
This is really a very interesting topic. I mean mainly that it corresponds to many philosophical figures that the churches themselves despise because most Christians do not understand them and therefore do not care. There are Christians who are unable to question their own faiths. And that's pretty bad. It means that that faith is only a cultural heritage, and that they were born with another, they would not be Christians.
But entering the subject, "unconditional love" is what makes Christianity really sell. I personally see God as an entity that does not care about good or evil, or what they represent. After all, there are evils within goodness, and goodness within evil itself.
Bad things happen to us because God is really indifferent. He knows all the infinite possibilities of each of our possible choices. Knowing all that. What empathy can you feel for each living being?
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.