/lit/ - Literature

>>20791875
I would like to give the hardcore fundies and followers of the late Augustinian tradition (along with its deformed bastard children, the Calvinist denominations) the benefit of doubt and assume that they just haven't thoroughly considered what their beliefs actually entail, but it becomes difficult when a lot of them come across like they're actively getting off on the concept

It really is almost Lovecraftian, as you say; when you add into the mix the responses (like several in this very thread) that God's logic and thought processes are so alien and incomprehensible to us that they might as well just be arbitrary nonsense, and that his sense of morality is completely different from ours, the image presented shifts very quickly from "Our Father who art in heaven" to "The Daemon Sultan Azathoth who babbles and gibbers in dark unlighted corridors beyond time and space"

>>20091517
You could probably replace all instances of "God" with "Azathoth" in most Calvinist/Monergist documents and you'd barely notice a difference