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I understand that it’s not nice to hear, but it’s a habit that makes Lemmy a lot less interesting as soon as you have a minority interest or opinion. For example, I’m not conservative but it wouldn’t occur to me to downvote a post on c/conservative, they have the right to have their place.

This journal is cool!

The fact that I have a PhD while I knew that I wouldn’t use it quickly after I begun, thus loosing years of my life is the proof that I’m dumb as a rock. Fitting for ChatGPT.

It depends on how you define omnipotence.

God may exist or may not exist. And you can break all the rules of logics when you write fiction.

It doesn’t mean it’s not interesting to apply the rules of logic to the idea of God. It’s even an important part of philosophy.

Yes communication is possible, just not directly, hence the signs and the symbols.

As for Jesus, even if he’s God and a human at the same time, it doesn’t mean that he would be able to speak divine truths directly. An infinite being as God cannot be rendered in a finite language.

I don’t care much about blasphemy ^^. It’s just logics. All-powerfulness doesn’t make the impossible possible.

Exactly. A being so powerful would crush anyone he would directly communicate with. Try to play BG3 on a Game Boy Color.

That actually makes sense. A being so powerful is far too different from humanity to communicate clearly.

Complex emotions are normal for complex situations. You can be sad and relieved at the same time, it’s normal and healthy. You can thus accept this complexity.

That makes me strangely uncomfortable.

My pleasure

And we can’t even be sure that death is the end. Live, my friend, live!

It’s not condescending and a very legitimate question. In fact, it’s partly the reason why I said that I have anarchist tendencies but don’t call myself an anarchist.

But for me, anarchism is about anti-authoritarianism. Religion can be authoritarian and hierarchical, or can be a free association of like-minded people. I don’t see how the second one couldn’t fit in an anarchist society. When I read for example Bakunin, I don’t recognize religion as I live it everyday; he clearly speaks about something else. Moreover, Jesus himself was quite anti-authoritarian and most political passages of the Bible criticize quite strongly the powerful people, or praise Jesus as a freedom giver (to call the Bible an anarchist book would be at least an anachronism, but the Bible was an influence of the early anarchist thinkers).

As a pastor with anarchist tendencies, I like the idea of anarcho-pastoralism. I know it’s not the sense of this word, but I don’t care.

I love the fact that all messages are upvoted (but yeah, Jonas is outdated 😅).