Saturday, November 5, 2011

Does god care about us or do we just deserve to die?

Or I should maybe ask, do we as these supposed divine creations, created in the image of an all powerful, all knowing deity, deserve the consequences that our uninformed actions are sure to reap? Or is this not possible, given that we are these divine creatures and therefore must mirror this all powerful being in all aspects of our existence, at least to some degree? Let me explain. Any realistic eschatology has become mostly a question of ecology at this point, a science in which we've gotten a pretty late start. Ecology has only been expounded upon as a science for the last hundred years or so. I will use for an example the consequence of our unrestrained use of plastics which is such that it has caused the chemical composition of our oceans to change, which in turn will probably eventually kill all of the algae, which will in turn kill us. The Great Pacific Gyre was once a place where nutrients and the building blocks of life converged. Nowadays it is a great swirling m of trash roughly the size of Texas, made up of mostly non-biodegradable plastics, breaking down as far as they can until they are invisible to our eyes but still "very much alive". This chemical process is slowly but surely leaching the algae killing, cancer causing carcinogen Bishpenol-A into our oceans. We had no way of foreseeing this, yet here it is, a very real and plausible threat to the existence of our species and maybe all life on planet Earth as we know it. And so, since God created us, in his/her image and all, s/he most probably cares about us and our future right? One would expect that s/he cares about us just as a parent instinctually cares for their children. At least if the principle of uniformity in nature is correct, because if we are like god then s/he is like us, at least in our better parts. So if your kid jumped into a pool without knowing the consequences you'd probably want to jump in and save them, right? Or would you say, "well, I gave you your life and I gave you free will along with it so do what you want Jr. but daddy's not jumping in to save you and getting his trousers wet". We can probably ume that you'd jump in and save Jr., not worrying about the trousers or the free will thing. Taking all of this into consideration, do you think that we deserve to die for our actions? Or will god recognize our naivete and "jump in" and save us at the last minute, perhaps imparting this great lesson to us all that we can transmit to future generations in texts such as "The Bible Part 2 (After he saved our *** big time)"... Or is there no god coming to save us? Should we just look at our actions and their consequences as fitting right in with the ways of nature, unpredictable and unforgiving? What do you think Yahoo?

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