Monday, November 24, 2014

It's All God's Fault

I’m still pretty stuck on the idea that this is all God’s fall. Regardless to free will, God created Hell and put really shitty guards on duty to keep his bad guys contained. I mean, sure, Satan had to do one step above a hop, skip and a jump to get around his kid (which, by the way, who the hell doesn’t know that they’ve reproduced…), but it really was not that difficult to escape his eternity in Hell. I sympathize with Faustus more than ever now because seriously, I don’t think Hell is all that permanent after all of this anymore either—especially before people were created.
Anyway… God created free will, God create Hell, God put these guards on duty, and… God created Satan. God sucks at making things that work in his favor… and really, it seems like God created sin.

Otherwise, I wish we were reading the rest of this text. I mention all the time in class that I know nothing about religion so it is so interesting reading about theories and stories from this time. It’s probably not the best idea, though, because I think the devils are complete badasses and are the best kind of bad guys. I mean, there the annoying kids that unscrew the legs in God’s chair so he falls on his ass and look silly. This world he is creating is supposed to be is little baby and the human race are his new favorite beings and Satan is all ready and able and essentially free to manipulate it into his personal revenge on God. Super cool… Go Devils!

2 comments:

  1. It seems to me that God is to blame for this. He created the would be devils with obvious flaws. Then he acts in ways that he should know would upset the devils and cause them to try and overthrow him. If he is all-knowing, shouldn't he have known better?

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  2. In response to the who the hell doesn't know they've reproduced? So many men. Anyway. Yeah...God kind of fucked up on the whole creating hell/posting good guard things. If ever there were any guards who would be more likely to let Satan out than his own family? Seriously? Why did God think that would be effective? Maybe he's just incapable of running a tight ship or maybe he doesn't care or maybe he just likes the chaos but either way, God's kind a dick in this story.

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