Re: Anti-God and antigod

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:10:42 +0100 (BST)


Nils:
> But, in an antigod is not anti-nature, extra-cosmic
> etc, as wrangled in anoter thread.

Well, one may or may not be. The point is those concepts aren't anything much to do with what it _means_ to be an Antigod, nor indeed much in the Eastern scheme of things at all.

> That said, Antigods are not necessarily evil. It is
> possible to worship (some) Antigods and be a nice,
> responsible person. Plenty of non-Vithelan deities
> which are considered good and definitely not anti-
> are antigods in the Vithelan scheme: Orlanth, Pamalt,
> Malkion.

Perhaps not necessarily _evil_, but not terribly good, either, in the Eastern view. Merely weak, indolent, misguided, self-centred, materialistic, or merely uninformed, rather rather the outright malicious or demented, certainly.

All IMVHO, of course. ;-)

Seeya,
Alex.


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