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What would the world be like if religions were right? Not one, but all of them. Say tomorrow that God begins to take a direct and obvious hand in the world. I know that many believers would say that this is already evident! And it is evident. To them.
Irrationally. I envision something different, for instance: God appears to his followers, literally. It happens occasionally on the street. Crowded sidewalk, hundreds of suits crawling by. An explosion of light and the crowd parts around a young man staring upward in startlement. The luminescent haloed figure shares wisdom briefly and disappears. The crowd shrugs, or celebrates, or howls with fear.
At first the phenomenon was greeted with enormous excitement.
(insert anecdotes: experience of living through that time of a few people from different belief systems(belief systems? Rather cumbersome. Paradigm? No, stupid word now. Something...) Christian obviously, Assorted denominations. Buddhism, more difficult but doable - especially with the esoteric stuff? Discordianism.)
Irrationally. I envision something different, for instance: God appears to his followers, literally. It happens occasionally on the street. Crowded sidewalk, hundreds of suits crawling by. An explosion of light and the crowd parts around a young man staring upward in startlement. The luminescent haloed figure shares wisdom briefly and disappears. The crowd shrugs, or celebrates, or howls with fear.
At first the phenomenon was greeted with enormous excitement.
(insert anecdotes: experience of living through that time of a few people from different belief systems(belief systems? Rather cumbersome. Paradigm? No, stupid word now. Something...) Christian obviously, Assorted denominations. Buddhism, more difficult but doable - especially with the esoteric stuff? Discordianism.)
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