On Theist Mysticism Vs. Materialist Realism
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 2023-06-30

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Did your view on God, the Paranormal, and other such topics change at the same time your views on fiction change? Did you use to be a more mystically inclined person, and has that changed to a more materialist (philosophically) inclined person?

Firstly, I would specify between “god” and the “paranormal” - so-called “paranormal” phenomenon can occur wether or not there is a “god.” Personally, I think the idea of a “god” is a fiction. The cosmos does not require a creator for the universe to have developed into what it is today; humanity is not so special a species as to have been “bred” by ancient aliens, rather than having evolved over the many billions of years, etc. The more we discover to be true about nature, the less evidence we find for the idea of “god.” I’ve always doubted the idea of god, and this idea has always been one of my chief arguments about the “evil” of fiction.