None of this makes any sense from any angle.

All you can do is hope it's a good thing somehow.

Counterpoint: why did souls ever need self-replicating chemical structures propping them up?

It really is the case that we have to hide the fact that we are helping people with taxes from the public in order to help them, huh :(

I wish we lived in a world where the coworkers would know and still willingly give up their paycheck for his treatment, but I know we don't live in that world. That sucks.

Great short video on the topic

But you remember that you had an idea at all which is the frustrating part

I'm not good at eyeballing graph correlation, but just intuitively I assume this is correct.

@secularoutpost.bsky.social you like moral theories. How terrible is this argument?

Okay, after typing this out, I realize there might need to be a first order theory that establishes (2), but then this argument would follow the establishment of (2) when it comes to actually deciding how to act.

The only way Christianity would not be consequentialist would be to not care about your neighbor at all and only care about yourself. This is very much not Christianity imo.

Even in a fictional world where the ideas of the kingdom of heaven and gehenna were never heard of, there are actions we can take that will influence whether the people around us come to love the God we worship.

Maximizing love of God for all people is consequentialist.

I think Christianity is consequentialist from the perspective of a human (not utilitarian which is only a subset of consequentialism) and philosophers saying otherwise are just coping tbh

This situational-dependent chance at salvation is very much against "love" if I have any concept of "love".

This leads me to conclude that Christianity must entail pre-determinism.

Do you think then change in additives in ship fuel is mostly to blame?

Thanks for quoting this! Don't think I would have heard about it otherwise!

Interesting interpretation of divinization.

Also interesting at the rejection of "ousios" as a philosophical concept and the reversal of the accusation. ("Nuh-uh, we aren't the philosophers. Arius was the philosopher.")