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[firecat]

I think much religion originally came to pass as a way for humans to try to influence things not directly under their control, such as weather, disease, food sources, other humans, and so forth.

If that's so, it stands to reason that the original concepts of deities might include the notion that they were scary and capricious entities that could punish just as well as reward.

Life *is* pretty scary and capricious and not particularly well under control.

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[tsamm.livejournal.com]

It seems much more honest in a strange way, having a god as capricious and unpredictable as the rest of life. It's scarier, though.

[xp85goblin.livejournal.com]

Well, God is painted by modern religions as being all loving. Unless assumes there is some spiritual point or message behind all the crap we put up with that is loving in a counter-intuitive way, then one has to figure that the Universe is a Maxis product being played by a 14 year old male with ADHD.