hymns and ritual prayers praising God for His goodness, when He's clearly an iron-plated bastard, are assembly-line-theurgy attempts to induce God to be good through a strategy of emotional blackmail
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I wouldn't say all the time, but it was shockingly effective. That said, kings lived under constant threat of peasant revolt, court intrigue, and getting on the pope's bad side.
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Maybe, in order to make all the hymns work, we should establish a standing and very visible plan to murder god and take his place.
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“Supreme indifference in God is the supreme proof of His omnipotence.” - Descartes You could almost say that leaving us to our own devices, not intervening in creation, is the surest way God holds fast to the principle that we too might be divine, i.e., indifferent to suffering.
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I am King of the Future.

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