Mr. Deity and the Consent
My favorite thing about the Mr. Deity Cinematic Universe is the ability to have conversations which would have had to take place among the Trinity (as though all-knowing, timeless Beings have conversations) and/or God's crew — God Himself, the angels (Larry?), Lucifer, etc...
This is one of my all-time favorite Mr. Deity conversations. Because I don't think I've ever heard anyone imagine this one before. It's regarding "free will," which when involving an all-powerful, all-knowing God creating sentient beings, would have to include our consent to be created in the first place. Forcing someone into a situation and then saying "you're free to chose NOW" is not in any sense "freedom."
I'll be talking more about God's "omni" properties at the end of the month. They really go a long way towards making the concept of God absolutely ridiculous. And you know how much I like pointing out the ridiculous, right?!!!
Again, my apologies for the late delivery. Obviously, this will not count as a September video, and will instead be part of October's offerings. Hopefully, you find it worth the wait. I think the last line might be up there with "wait for Lou." You tell me.
Thanks again, my beautiful patrons. I'm the luckiest (echo: luckiest) man (echo: man) on the face (echo: face, face, face) of the earth (echo: earth, earth, earth). See what I did there? Enjoy! B
Comments (23)
Any supernatural being who creates a species, an intelligent species, just so it has people to worship it, is one sick puppy, and is desperately in need of psychological counseling.
That sounds exactly like Mr. Deity. And Yahweh!
Holy shit! Your best video yet! literally smoke came out my nose, I belly laughed at least 10 times. This is why I am a patreon.
Poor Mr. Deity, the conversation never goes like it did in his head!
So nice to hear Larry back. He really knows how to put the Sick in Sycophant.
LOL!!!
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I just realized that I don't know where to find the rewards for my tier. I'm referring to the lottery numbers. I was reminded of this when I found an old lottery ticket lying around. It wasn't a winner, of course. But surely lottery numbers from a Deity would be better! So I came here to look, and I just can't find them. If they are winning numbers, I promise to increase my membership tier.
No guarantee, but here you go… 6 31 14 29 32 and 21. Good luck.
I've heard the free will argument from a number of theists during (friendly and civil) disagreements. Free will is meaningless without the ability to make informed choices. If the almighty is hiding from us, that seems to stack the deck against a free choice to believe. When someone says god doesn't owe it to us to perform "circus tricks" for our edification, I point out that all I ask to see is the kind of stuff that the Bible already shows god doing. I can grasp the idea of a deity that doesn't perform flamboyant miracles, but if that's the case, a book full of flamboyant miracles is unconvincing at best and false advertising at worst. And then there's all the "hardening Pharaoh's heart" which seems to be a direct violation of Pharaoh's free will.
Amen!!!
One year before the beginning of time, hmmm.
I love when you guys catch stuff like that!
I'm a big fan and I've watched all the Mr. Deity videos but that was beyond good if was just brilliant. Thank you Brian
You’re both my new best friend and my old best friend! 😉
Good morning You sexy beast, lol 😉 But yeah. God: "I give You free will THOUGH I know EVERYTHING You'll ever do BEFIORE You do it" SMH
That’s a nice way to start my day!
Ah… hahahaha! Playing with our ex-cult's "Premortal Existence," I see! No wonder a third of them said "No way! We'll go with Lucy's plan."
This whole free will thing has had me thinking. If evil exists because we have free will and many people making wrong choices... Do people lose their free will when they go to heaven? Since heaven is supposed to be a place without evil, it would seem to me, free will is the last thing a deity would want to have there since evil is caused by the exercise of free will.
I’ve been making that point (as have many others) for years! It’s a checkmate question.
At 03:58 there's a fraction of a second where the green-screen filter goes awry. I love your video - again. Yet another great one that made my day!
Thanks. I’ll have to look at that. D’oh!!!
lol, ended perfectly!
Wonderful :D