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Since Lumpenproletariat won't reveal the contents of his special The Mythological Hero Official Requirements Checklist (MHORC), I thought I'd start a checklist of an Omnimonogod.
Here are a few random thoughts I can think of that could be part of a Mythological Omni-God Official Requirements Checklist or MOORC. Now I am of course making quite a few assumptions. This god for some odd reason still wants to create a universe with a bazzilian stars/galaxies. It still wants to let it/life evolve over the eons. It decides that humans have a perpetual soul and need to stumble thru lots of travails thru their lives, before becoming disembodied into a new alien permanent form. Some humans will get shit, and others will get a much better life….c'est la vie. Ok, enough of that incomplete description…
MOORC list:
1. Only 1 god, without weird other heads poking out.
2. A god who revealed himself, as humans became more organized (assuming a god that let evolution work its way forward). So it should have laid out some basic guidance circa 2000-2500 BC. It could have provided the exact same tablets (in each respective language) to the Sumerians, Chinese and Egyptians and made sure that at least parts of these clay tablets survived the milenia.
3. God wouldn’t direct any special followers to commit genocide, rape, enslave people, nor have women treated as chattel. In fact it would point these things out as immoral.
4. God would impart some practical insight well beyond the people’s time to know such things. For example it would have been helpful to let people know about germs they can’t see, but are real. Also, it could have said don’t shit upstream of where one draws their water.
5. A just and loving God wouldn’t threaten or do mass genocide nor torture “souls” after the body dies. A promised land could easily be created by an all-powerful deity without genocide.
6. A human not believing in said god, would not face any form of wrath, for simply not believing the evidence.
7. A god would not play hide-n-seek. His tablets wouldn’t have any sort of stupid fake fables like Noah’s Deluge. If he wanted to inject a creation story, people wouldn’t have to turn sentences into a pile of contorted knots, just to make not conflict with later scientific understanding.
I’m sure many more could be brought up, but 7 is a nice number…
Here are a few random thoughts I can think of that could be part of a Mythological Omni-God Official Requirements Checklist or MOORC. Now I am of course making quite a few assumptions. This god for some odd reason still wants to create a universe with a bazzilian stars/galaxies. It still wants to let it/life evolve over the eons. It decides that humans have a perpetual soul and need to stumble thru lots of travails thru their lives, before becoming disembodied into a new alien permanent form. Some humans will get shit, and others will get a much better life….c'est la vie. Ok, enough of that incomplete description…
MOORC list:
1. Only 1 god, without weird other heads poking out.
2. A god who revealed himself, as humans became more organized (assuming a god that let evolution work its way forward). So it should have laid out some basic guidance circa 2000-2500 BC. It could have provided the exact same tablets (in each respective language) to the Sumerians, Chinese and Egyptians and made sure that at least parts of these clay tablets survived the milenia.
3. God wouldn’t direct any special followers to commit genocide, rape, enslave people, nor have women treated as chattel. In fact it would point these things out as immoral.
4. God would impart some practical insight well beyond the people’s time to know such things. For example it would have been helpful to let people know about germs they can’t see, but are real. Also, it could have said don’t shit upstream of where one draws their water.
5. A just and loving God wouldn’t threaten or do mass genocide nor torture “souls” after the body dies. A promised land could easily be created by an all-powerful deity without genocide.
6. A human not believing in said god, would not face any form of wrath, for simply not believing the evidence.
7. A god would not play hide-n-seek. His tablets wouldn’t have any sort of stupid fake fables like Noah’s Deluge. If he wanted to inject a creation story, people wouldn’t have to turn sentences into a pile of contorted knots, just to make not conflict with later scientific understanding.
I’m sure many more could be brought up, but 7 is a nice number…