I think it’s interesting all this infighting of the Abrahamic religions concerning their end of days theology because in many ways each religion have their own idea of a global religious theocratic monarchy world government state afterwards whether it is headed by Jesus, Hashem, or Allah.
For the Christians it is the kingdom of heaven or kingdom of God headed by Jesus.
For the Jews it is Olam haba with the installation of the global Davidic monarchy.
With Muslims it is Ummah to create a global Caliph.
There is something uniquely Abrahamic about the ideal of world government throughout world history and it would seem the three Abrahamic religions are in constant competition against each other to install their own separate variations of it.
It’s fascinating between these three different yet very similar desert death cults known as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Every single one of them believes in a sort of apocalyptic vision where for the world to be saved it has to be destroyed.
Every single one of them believes that they alone are right about everything as a sort of final authority on everything.
Every single one of them believes that when their prophecies are fulfilled will grant them the powers of installing a theocratic religious monarchy over the entire planet thus ushering in a theocratic world government.
Every single one of them believes billions of people must die for these religious prophecies to become true, their divine relevations etched in human blood, death, and sacrifice.
It is a horrifying realization that 55% of the global population believes in one of these three apocalyptic death cults wanting to install their competing religious global governments.
Of course it is much easier to destroy an entire planet rather than try to fix, repair, and heal it through peaceful cooperation. This obsession with destruction and annihilation seems to be taking the easy way out of things where that is very unfortunate because as a species we have the capability of doing so much better through cooperation.
If your God requires the destruction and annihilation of the entire world with billions of people dead along with later forced religious conversion afterward, is that a God really worth worshipping?
“the three Abrahamic religions are in constant competition against each other to install their own separate variations of it”
It’s not the religions that are competing or even relevant at all (you could get em on the flying spaghetti monster in a few generations if you wanted… they’ll believe anything) but the bourgeoise class of politicians, bankers, and investors that run each country. They’re simply using the facade of religious conviction and commitment to obtain wealth, territory, and the privilege of not having to work.
Imagine that. A two thousand year long fraud perpetrated by a useless class of parasites that’s hand-fed to slaves generation after generation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRXGsPBUV5g
Please allow me to introduce myself
I am a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
And I was around when Jesus Christ
had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate.
I watched with glee while your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys?”
When, after all, it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself…
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The Devil is God’s fall guy. He’s an idea added to the model that solves the Problem of Evil. It provides a way to get around the logical collision between god’s omnipotence (i.e., being able to produce a perfect world but choosing not to for some reason) and the existence of whack-ass shit.
Why they are able to do this is because of the craftiness of scholastic philosophers… something you have to be to make freewill work (which is a fundamental feature needed to make excusing god’s design possible).
Only because it is taken for granted by people who are philosophically illiterate that freewill exists does this crafty metaphysical sham called the ‘devil’ even pass.
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I did not know that Jean-Paul Sartre was philosophically illiterate…
Abrahamic religions use the notion of free will, developed by philosophers, to explain the evil. That is their issue, the free will by itself is quite complex philosophical concept. Let’s not oversimplify it.
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Sartre has a thoroughly confused notion of freewill as a result of his dualistic ontology. He is essentially cartesian with a twist: instead of being a free ghost in a machine, you are a free nothing in a machine.
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Does philosophy support the existence of God? Philosophers are deeply divided on the existence of God with views ranging from strong theism to firm atheism. However the way philosophy approaches this depends on whether the approach is theological or strictly metaphysical.
Some philosophers of religion e.g. Alvin Plantinga proponents of the Satan Hypothesis argue that a rebel angel theodicy is a logical possibility . Conversely many philosophers argue that the existence of an independent evil force (like Satan) contradicts the traditional definition of omnipotent omnibenevolent God. ie. If God is truly all powerful they argue Satan could not exist or act against God’s will.
Your view argues that if all power originated from God, this would mean Satan is a pawn or subordinate instrument, not a true opposing equal.
In summary, philosophy accepts Satan as a workable concept in a metaphysical framework, it struggles more with Satan as an independent, equal counterpart to a supreme God.
The word 'philosophy" occurs only twice in scripture. Should Christians believe in philosophy? Not only good but necessary, for at least two reasons.
Firstly everyone has a philosophy in the sense of having a worldview for a set of presuppositions, even if unexamined and whether consciously recognised or not, a person’s worldview affects how they live and interpret their experiences.
Second, C S Lewis observes in an essay titled On learning in Wartime. Good philosophy must exist if for no other reason because bad philosophy must be answered. In other words it is necessary for Christians to provide responses to alternative philosophical positions. This point is not original to Lewis, of course, the apostle Peter tells us to always be prepared to make a defence.
Recognising false worldviews and developing your own is the work of philosophy.
But this is not without risk.
“People who are philosophically illiterate”.
Comparing the mind of a sex offender with a philosophical mind.
For the sex offender it is self gratification and justification, for the philosopher understanding truth and ethics.
For the sex offender manipulative grooming, for the philosopher discourse oriented.
For the Buddhist…
https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/the-buddhist-ideal-very-wrong-and-very-right/953661253085002/
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