Keith&Co.
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I wonder what's harder to do? Being a god, and revealing yourself to nonbelievers or revealing yourself to believers?
Just about every entity that self-identifies as a deity in Star Trek is rejected. I'm not entirely sure how Picard manages to meet an omnipotent, omniscient being who has no limitations beyond a short attention span and declare "You're no god!" but it's almost a running gag.
In other places, Elizabeth Hurley, Morgan Freeman and George Burns meet doubters who are eventually convinced of their status as powerful, inhuman beings. Kinda like Johnny Smith in Dead Zone, convincing skeptics that he's psychic...you just keep doing psychic (godly)(satany) shit until they run out of objections.
On the third hand, lots of cartoons and discussion holds that modern Christains would not recognize Jesus if he came back. Or agree with his stance on many topics. They're far more invested in a belief that Jesus is watching AND APPROVING of their lifestyle and choices than atheists are in the gods not being real.
Like the pastor in this thread: http://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?2948-Fundy-pastor-visits-Scandinavia-head-explodes , if Jesus came back and said homosexuality was not a reason to go to Hell, he'd be labeled a false messiah by all too many, simply because they've invested so much into that interpretation.
Frankly, i think God could prove himself to me far more quickly than to my grandfather. Cure my diabetes, my amputation, and the blood leaking into my eyeballs, you're god. Grandpa would ask a string of questions about the Divine stance on abortion, contraception, government, gun control, drugs, girls in skirts, boys in skirts, Scottish independence, draft dodgers, are the Baptists in Hell, are the Catholics Christains, why are avacado pits so fucking big and just how much did the President know about the Pearl Harbor Attack? Wrong answers to any of these questions would risk His being rejected as a fake...
Just about every entity that self-identifies as a deity in Star Trek is rejected. I'm not entirely sure how Picard manages to meet an omnipotent, omniscient being who has no limitations beyond a short attention span and declare "You're no god!" but it's almost a running gag.
In other places, Elizabeth Hurley, Morgan Freeman and George Burns meet doubters who are eventually convinced of their status as powerful, inhuman beings. Kinda like Johnny Smith in Dead Zone, convincing skeptics that he's psychic...you just keep doing psychic (godly)(satany) shit until they run out of objections.
On the third hand, lots of cartoons and discussion holds that modern Christains would not recognize Jesus if he came back. Or agree with his stance on many topics. They're far more invested in a belief that Jesus is watching AND APPROVING of their lifestyle and choices than atheists are in the gods not being real.
Like the pastor in this thread: http://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?2948-Fundy-pastor-visits-Scandinavia-head-explodes , if Jesus came back and said homosexuality was not a reason to go to Hell, he'd be labeled a false messiah by all too many, simply because they've invested so much into that interpretation.
Frankly, i think God could prove himself to me far more quickly than to my grandfather. Cure my diabetes, my amputation, and the blood leaking into my eyeballs, you're god. Grandpa would ask a string of questions about the Divine stance on abortion, contraception, government, gun control, drugs, girls in skirts, boys in skirts, Scottish independence, draft dodgers, are the Baptists in Hell, are the Catholics Christains, why are avacado pits so fucking big and just how much did the President know about the Pearl Harbor Attack? Wrong answers to any of these questions would risk His being rejected as a fake...