I'm hitting the home stretch of Beyond Good and Evil by Friederich Nietzsche, controversial German philosopher who posited that the Almighty has, in fact, kicked the bucket. Now, while one could easily argue that God is Existence and thus cannot not exist, I still must take a pause to consider the life of the scriptural God:
Infancy: God afraid of the dark. Makes nightlight.
Toddlerhood: God wants to play. Makes a garden to play in, fully equipped with awesome creatures that He made with His own two hands!
Childhood: God upset that Adam and Eve broke the rules of His game. Orders them into permanent time-out.
Pre-Teen: God double-dog-dares Abraham to sacrifice his son, then throws a tantrum because no one else will play by His rules, flooding the world. God feels kind of bad about this and realizes He doesn't want to lose His friendship with humanity.
Teenage Years: God's going through changes... He wants to make something of His life. He sets up His own fraternity of priests and prophets- no girls allowed. In fact, it's more of a gang, prone to rumbles with a Rival's gang.
Late Teens: After a sublime one-night stand, Mary tells God she's pregnant. Realizing He's about to become a father, God decides it's time to tone down the violence.
Early Adulthood: God revels in His son's earthly success, haunted by memories of Abraham and Isaac. He is devastated when humanity tears His own son apart.
Adulthood: Deeply wounded by this betrayal, God encourages His aging frat brothers to keep His son's memory alive and spread it across the world.
Late Adulthood: God watches His fraternity splinter into thousands of warring factions, each claiming to remember better, each prepared to crush those who remember differently.
Old Age: God finds comfort in the dwindling few who still harbor humility and love.
Humanity loses record of God's voice after Revelation 22:21.
Death?
Infancy: God afraid of the dark. Makes nightlight.
Toddlerhood: God wants to play. Makes a garden to play in, fully equipped with awesome creatures that He made with His own two hands!
Childhood: God upset that Adam and Eve broke the rules of His game. Orders them into permanent time-out.
Pre-Teen: God double-dog-dares Abraham to sacrifice his son, then throws a tantrum because no one else will play by His rules, flooding the world. God feels kind of bad about this and realizes He doesn't want to lose His friendship with humanity.
Teenage Years: God's going through changes... He wants to make something of His life. He sets up His own fraternity of priests and prophets- no girls allowed. In fact, it's more of a gang, prone to rumbles with a Rival's gang.
Late Teens: After a sublime one-night stand, Mary tells God she's pregnant. Realizing He's about to become a father, God decides it's time to tone down the violence.
Early Adulthood: God revels in His son's earthly success, haunted by memories of Abraham and Isaac. He is devastated when humanity tears His own son apart.
Adulthood: Deeply wounded by this betrayal, God encourages His aging frat brothers to keep His son's memory alive and spread it across the world.
Late Adulthood: God watches His fraternity splinter into thousands of warring factions, each claiming to remember better, each prepared to crush those who remember differently.
Old Age: God finds comfort in the dwindling few who still harbor humility and love.
Humanity loses record of God's voice after Revelation 22:21.
Death?
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