/lit/ - Literature

>>16964302
>I'm assuming that God is real and the bible is his message. I'm not assuming that the message is the whole truth or nothing but the truth.
Then you are not arguing against the God of the Bible, and I am wasting my time

>knowledge that it was leading nowhere would rob the struggle of its meaning
That is weakness speaking; a true struggler would struggle even in the face of absurdity, especially if it is the only thing you can do aside from "worshipping a cosmic tyrant."

>increasing the complexity of ourselves and our comprehension of the world has the potential to produce miraculous things beyond anything we are capable of imagining.
It sounds absolutely absurd, but I do hope you have a good night. It seems I will have to read about it for myself to understand it in its totality

>>16819829
>in a realistic world
Ah, so you're like one of those children who says "if I was that building's architect, I would have put more towers and spikey bits. It's a military building, no? That way, it would look scarier." Stay out of things that are beyond you

>>16819831
Why is there order instead of entropy? Why this specific order?

>>16819834
We call God evil, which is pretentious. We can call men evil, and we have been such evil gods, haven't we? What makes you think evilness like ours would beget a sublime transfiguration, without appealing to the transformative powers of a divine being?

>>16819858
Christianity is hedonism. Solved