02-04-2014, 03:33 PM
In response to KMcNay:
"1) it doesn't get any more personal than us all being a part of the one"
Yes, that is a good point -- English language can be ambiguous, haha. I mean "personal god" in the sense that there is an entity separate from ourselves who created and rules over us, as most religions assert. Society in general seems to be moving away from this concept, probably because it's not a concept that holds up to much scrutiny. When various religions and individuals assert so strongly that God is something that it's not, I think this leads to a situation where people are driven away from spirituality entirely. That's how it happened for me personally.
"2) isn't the anthropormophisim of god is part of the assasination of God because the major religions didn't both to tell us the first part?"
I'm a little confused by this question, but you might be giving the philosophical weight of my fictional story a little too much credit! God is an anthropomorphized character in the story (he wears a fanny pack!), and true to his Old Testament nature, his motives mostly revolve around wiping out humanity by recruiting various individuals, including his own daughter (Jesus's evil twin sister), to do his dirty work. And various individuals attempt to assassinate him back, so the grammatically ambiguous title actually refers to about 5 or 6 different situations that the player can get into.
It's, uh, kind of a weird story...
"1) it doesn't get any more personal than us all being a part of the one"
Yes, that is a good point -- English language can be ambiguous, haha. I mean "personal god" in the sense that there is an entity separate from ourselves who created and rules over us, as most religions assert. Society in general seems to be moving away from this concept, probably because it's not a concept that holds up to much scrutiny. When various religions and individuals assert so strongly that God is something that it's not, I think this leads to a situation where people are driven away from spirituality entirely. That's how it happened for me personally.
"2) isn't the anthropormophisim of god is part of the assasination of God because the major religions didn't both to tell us the first part?"
I'm a little confused by this question, but you might be giving the philosophical weight of my fictional story a little too much credit! God is an anthropomorphized character in the story (he wears a fanny pack!), and true to his Old Testament nature, his motives mostly revolve around wiping out humanity by recruiting various individuals, including his own daughter (Jesus's evil twin sister), to do his dirty work. And various individuals attempt to assassinate him back, so the grammatically ambiguous title actually refers to about 5 or 6 different situations that the player can get into.
It's, uh, kind of a weird story...