The only hope for Celestia to fix her greatest mistake, to ensure that the Dust she created will no longer wreak havoc upon the boundaries of time and space. But Man, in his arrogance and pride, will not let the Dust go without a fight.
Man slew their own God, after all. What’s one more on the books to save that which they have gained?
Someone should commission this…or send me info on people so I can commission it. XD
The God of His Dark Materials is a British atheist with an axe to grind. It would be well and truly impressive if Lord Asriel were to kill his own author.
It was just a random joke, I don’t know much about his dark materials except that it has some extremely antireligous undertones
The God of His Dark Materials couldn’t heart attack an obese chihuahua after five espressos, though; he has to be carried around in a special invalid’s seat.
Edit: Well, one of the possible “God”s of the setting does. The other just sends his armies or throws a spear, like normal non-omnipotent regents.
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God: THERE IS NO LORD ASRIEL
lord asriel has a heart attack and drops dead
SPONGEBOB.
…secularism
Yeah… that makes no sense at all.
“You have no power over me.”
“YOU CANNOT DEFY A GOD! powerbeam”
“Not even if we don’t believe they exist? Beam arcs away at 110 degree angle”
“What? HOW DID THAT EVEN WORK? I’M STANDING RIGHT HERE!”
“I do not put blind trust into only a single sense. Mine eyes can be deceived and I acknowledge as much.”
“What if I destroyed the continent beneath you! exploding sword barrage”
“I do not believe such power exists, therefore I remain standing upon solid ground. standing in mid-air above the ocean as land begins to reform”
“Oh this is just complete nonsense!”
An atheist in a world where gods and deities are undeniably real and take an active role in the mortal world’s affairs.
GOD HIMSELF COULD NOT SINK THIS HYPERBOLE
“Hay, Asura, ttly finished with these noobs, you can rule them now, tata, byebyethen pop” Also he technically made those billions in the first place. Plus, you know, the whole blatantly telegraphed thing (even before his daughter says it) that if he kills him he’ll cease to exist too. Why you make adowwabble daughteru sad, Asura?
Because Chakravartin was, quite simply, a completely selfish dick. He created a Ghoma Vlitra and caused the suffering and deaths of billions just to find an heir, and stated that he’d destroyed and recreated the universe multiple times for failing to provide a suitable successor. It’s implied that the only reason he wants an heir is so that he can find other universes to reshape in his own image.
Not to mention that, by this point, his offer to make Asura the next true God really pisses Asura off, because by this point Asura pretty much hates the very idea of gods.
@Princess♠Molestia All you needed is a Big Goddamn Ship and a fancy pointy decoration.
As long as people like Jack Chick and Fred Phelps exist, I don’t think you should say that it isn’t a real sentiment that shouldn’t be criticized.
Far fewer than you think, I guarantee you. It’s popular these days to twist statements like “God says you and I are sinners” into “God hates you and wants you dead,” just to set up a nice easy straw man.
There are quite a few people who claim that God feels this way, though.
My statement is directed at people making the set of claims and commandments in question. If the leader is purportedly telling people to do these things but does not exist, then it is in fact the people doing the purporting that are telling people to do these things, who are therefore themselves the immoral entity in question.
If God doesn’t exist, God doesn’t hate homosexuals, or Jews, or Communists, or whoever the preacher is going on about today. The preacher does. That’s what I meant.
“I will most vociferously object to people who claim that this leader exists when in fact he does not appear to”
Uh, that’s a little bit assholish, wouldn’t you agree? If someone isn’t hurting anyone, why would you care what they believe?
Not “better,” just different enough that it’s meaningless to compare our notions of good and evil. For example, relatively few people are Hitleresque in their everyday dealings. But if you put them in a position of godlike authority over created beings…
Well, the nature of divine revelation is certainly a point of more than a little controversy, but let’s suppose for a moment that such edicts were completely knowable and that everyone was indeed aware of them beyond any shadow of a doubt. Rebellion in that scenario is the kind of defiance that I’m saying is totally illogical. Let me put it this way: if you are standing on train tracks and see Amtrak headed straight at you, are you going to stand there and say you won’t move because you have a right to be there? Barring a desire for suicide, that would obviously be completely unreasonable.