phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well for one, they’re all made up and as such, imaginary.
The older religions (Christianity, Islam, etc) were written well before most of our current scientific knowledge was available and as such, things like “omnipotence” being a logically inconsistent idea wasn’t exactly known.
Theae stories have been written by that age’s equivalent of fanboys so it’s no wonder that these rather extreme powers are shown off so much
Imperious_melange@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A sidebar from the post. I’m curious if you have ever gone over any epistemology. Particularly thought explorations like Boltzmann brains, Descartes demon, last Thursdayism, Plato’s cave, or Chung Tzu’s butterfly.
In the study of knowledge it becomes clear that what most call knowledge isn’t as absolute or concrete as at least I personally would prefer it to be and that which is seemingly solid is quite limited. For instance I assume all previous moments before now actually happened and reality didn’t just start as is like a video game booting into some programmed state. I don’t mind axioms such as that but it’s worth being aware it is an axiom and not something I absolutely know to be the case.