Monday, July 10, 2023
God Exploded?
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Reading a piece about booksellers in WIRED (July 2023) the
person profiled, Andy Hunter – a sci-fi writer (among other things) – shelved
his 650-page novel, God Exploded, “about a guy who tries to start a religion
around the idea that the big bang was actually the suicide of a deity.” [Page 46]
While the article was about Amazon’s screwing up booksellers, that little aside intrigued me.
Since the great Teilhard de Chardin posed the metaphysical “suggestion” that the Cosmos was the actual physical body of Jesus/Christ, I found the idea that one of the omnipotent all-mighties – the Mormons picture a slew of gods extant in the physical universe – committing suicide fascinating.
(Of course, current astrophysicists shunning the Big Bang for an ongoing, everlasting eternal Universe – à la Hoyle – the suggestion of a universe-killing entity becomes troublesome.
But the fiction is worthy of cogitation.
This takes me to the importance (or non-importance) of the David Grusch expositions…
A non-human intervention in our reality, our humanity, pales when one considers the theological impact of a god – the God? – wishing reality (us) out of existence.
My Jesuit teachers asserted that God waking up and momentarily thinking of a vacuous Universe – only as a passing “thought” – would put us and the Universe we inhabit out of existence, faster than immediacy.
Thus a god committing suicide, a metaphysical and theological possibility, is not without reason or philosophical sense. It could happen.
So, David Grusch’s whimsy or truths about non-humans perhaps with bad things planned for humanity (and our Earth) pale in comparison.
Humanity is temporary as it is. (Look at the record of Earth’s hominim species.)
One more extinction is no big thing apparently.
I’ll contact Andy Hunter and see if he plans on publishing God Exploded. I’ll get a copy.
While the article was about Amazon’s screwing up booksellers, that little aside intrigued me.
Since the great Teilhard de Chardin posed the metaphysical “suggestion” that the Cosmos was the actual physical body of Jesus/Christ, I found the idea that one of the omnipotent all-mighties – the Mormons picture a slew of gods extant in the physical universe – committing suicide fascinating.
(Of course, current astrophysicists shunning the Big Bang for an ongoing, everlasting eternal Universe – à la Hoyle – the suggestion of a universe-killing entity becomes troublesome.
But the fiction is worthy of cogitation.
This takes me to the importance (or non-importance) of the David Grusch expositions…
A non-human intervention in our reality, our humanity, pales when one considers the theological impact of a god – the God? – wishing reality (us) out of existence.
My Jesuit teachers asserted that God waking up and momentarily thinking of a vacuous Universe – only as a passing “thought” – would put us and the Universe we inhabit out of existence, faster than immediacy.
Thus a god committing suicide, a metaphysical and theological possibility, is not without reason or philosophical sense. It could happen.
So, David Grusch’s whimsy or truths about non-humans perhaps with bad things planned for humanity (and our Earth) pale in comparison.
Humanity is temporary as it is. (Look at the record of Earth’s hominim species.)
One more extinction is no big thing apparently.
I’ll contact Andy Hunter and see if he plans on publishing God Exploded. I’ll get a copy.
(Picture atop from Charisma News)
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