Re: meeting your God

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:27:29 -0000

> Andrew writes:
>
> "FWIW, YMMV: I have met my God. This past Sunday, I enacted
> the "Christ Triumphs Over Death" heroquest, and drank his blood.
> You are free to roll your eyes at my superstition--and for that
> matter, a Mostali rolls his eyes in just that way at the
> superstitious Heortling who claims that he "met Orlanth" when the
> Mostali knows perfectly well that the Heortling just went onto a
> hill and talked to a priest wearing a fancy get-up."
>
> I don't think that standard Christian dogma says that Communion
> involves "Meeting" God. Just meeting his blood.

That's debatable. Christians do talk about communing with God and feeling his presence, which is as close to 'meeting' him as you're going to get without being dead. And, even if you don't buy that, there are a number of RW religions (animist ones, mostly) the adherents of which certainly will tell you they meet their god.

> As for the dwarf analogy, my understanding of Glorantha is that you
> are wrong. The dwarf could tag along and meet Orlanth too. Talk to
> Orlanth, ask him about his health and the weather, etc.

Depends if he wins his challenge to determine the 'truth', doesn't it?

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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