Anyone have any ideas on how to kill God? I was thinking a out it and I think for a lot of people "God" is just this undefined "thing" out there that they can attribute other things to.
Like imagine a caveman kid talking to their caveman parent and asking questions like "Why is there a day and a night? Why is sky blue? Why is dog died?"
And the caveman parent just makes something up.
When people don't know the cause of something, they can create a cause out of their imagination.
God will always be lurking in the imaginations of stupid people, and we will always have stupid people on this planet.
For a while this scared me because I'm a stupid person with an imagination, so I knew the idea of "God" will stay with me till I die (since I can't think about anything when I die).
So I think the only way to kill God is if everyone dies. But even then it's a gamble because there's a whole "if a tree falls in a forest?" aspect.
Anyone else have any ideas?
... prophetic words, one might say.
Anyway... in the sense you are speaking of, the only way to totally kill God would be the erasure of massive amounts of human history, combined with either killing or 'reducating' billions of people, and then the institution of some kind of Orwellian totalitarianism, which must basically persist in perpetuity.
Other than something like that... its not possible to totally exorcize the idea of God or Gods from humans... we are pattern seekers, we love simple explanations, and we love stories, narratives.
It's cool how Mass Effect and Terminator could be seen as religious prophecies in some crazy future timeline.
I have literally met high schoolers who sincerely believed the Marvel movies were based on real life events, until I explained to them that no, they're based on comic books, they are entirely fictional stories.
We already live in the dumbest possible timeline.
Remember how when Idiocracy came out, the general reception was 'wow this is over the top, dude-bro moron version of the future, not worth serious discussion', ... and now a good chunk of people are looking back at it as 'well actually, a lot of this seems scarily reasonable?'
i like how Mike Judge found the stupidest looking shoes he could find, from a new niche shoe company. These will never take off, he thinks; they're too hideous. So he puts everyone in crocs and chortles to himself. And then, 20 years later ...