/lit/ - Literature

>>10121509
The concept of God is only eternal because its definition is unclear, different from culture to culture, and unfalsifiable. It is empowered and given weight as a concept precisely because it evades definition while people collectively accept it and attribute all their success to it.

"No johnny, we aren't blessed because we have a social safety net that rallies around the concept of a man getting executed a long time ago. We're blessed because that man is very much alive in a place we can't observe, watching everything we do and ensuring it goes right because he appreciates us worshiping him."

>>>9334646
>Isn't Against the Day like this?
I think ATD and M&D are better than GR.
I also think they're warmer and more humane. You can feel him being a father when he writes those books. He wrote GR before he was a father.

>>9223062
I've 24, have run into this mindset of OP's frequently since I was in my teens (always in places like this, sometimes in places like reddit, never in places like stackexchange) and it is always equally abysmal.

OP's philosophy deserves to be parodied in a great work of fiction.