Posted: Sep 26, 2020 3:02 pm
The_Metatron wrote:Svartalf wrote:Hermit wrote:Tracer Tong wrote:Has your experience with your cancer changed in any way your existing beliefs about God and/or an afterlife?Fallible wrote:No.
What? Your cancer has not convinced you that God exists? Or that the fear of death has made you desire life after death so desperately that you deluded yourself that he does?
Can't talk about MY cancer, since to the best of my knowledge I have none yet, but my parents' have convinced me that if dog has the bad taste of existing, it's and evil bastard unworthy of worship.
I'm with you. If the bastard existed, I'd kill it.
Jesse the Preacher?
'Preacher' comic book series (also an AMC TV series)...
God has abandoned Heaven, and preacher Jesse Custer sets out to find Him (on Earth) and bring Him to justice... something he eventually accomplishes with the help of a latter-day angel of death called 'Saint of Killers'...
Custer told the Saint everything he learned in his quest for God - that God was an attention-fiend, and that he was willing to cause pain, destruction and death for no other reason than to see who would love him. He sparked a war between the angels to find out who would stay on his side. He created a world full of humans who would fight in his name, just to see who adored him more, and that he engineered the creation of Genesis, a being as powerful as Him, in order to see if He could make it love Him.
Custer had a plan; a way of paying God back for the horrors he inflicted upon his creation. But Jesse would require the Saint's help if such a thing were to work. The guns the Saint carried were lethal - no shot hit that did not kill, and their first kill was none other than the Devil himself. But they couldn't simply shoot God, as he shielded himself from Jesse and Genesis's detection. As long as they were looking for Him, God wouldn't budge, but it was the belief of Jesse that if Genesis were out of the picture, that God would head straight for Heaven; where the Saint of Killers would be waiting for him.
When the Saint entered Heaven, the entire Heavenly host was arrayed against him. Rank upon rank of angel flew to keep him away from the heavenly gates, and they were all shot down by his guns. And when Jesse's plan worked, when Genesis was released and God returned to retake his throne, the Saint was waiting for him. God begged for his life, and offered the Saint whatever he wanted - power, life, the lives of his family, anything. But the Saint didn't want anything God offered him. All he wanted, he said, was to rest.
He shot God dead. Then he sat on God's throne, pulled his hat over his eyes, and went to sleep, presumably forever.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_of_Killers#God
