• rockerface 🇺🇦
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    22 days ago

    Just as his namesake god, sometimes benevolent, sometimes an asshole. Though slightly less of an asshole, it seems

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      I see what you mean. But, take out the word “slightly” and it’s also how most of us perceive ourselves and how we should be treated by an authority. It seems exemplified in our anthropomorphized perceptions of most gods.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
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        22 days ago

        Yeah, polytheistic gods are basically people, with all consequences thereof. Powerful, but not omnipotent, nor omniscient.

        We’ve been telling stories of those people to make sense of the universe, but the story is ultimately about us.