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> Yeah, I won't rule out that they exist, Word of Faith/Prosperity churches - God is a genie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Faith https://en.wikipedia
by MisterTea 1y ago
> Yeah, I won't rule out that they exist,
Word of Faith/Prosperity churches - God is a genie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Faith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Faith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
- hinkley 1y agoClassically, the Devil follows the djinn trope. It’s weird that Jesus is slowly being cast into that same role.
- korse 1y agoDjinn trope? Point me at some relevant scholarship. I've always found the 1001 nights djinn interesting characters.
- hinkley 1y agoThe notion of being careful what you wish for because you just might get it is embodied in djinn, genies, Pandora, and the devil. You get what you asked for and not what you wanted.
- toast0 1y agoSounds like programming :P
- ZoomZoomZoom 1y agoOnly if you're good at it.
- MonkeyClub 1y agoEven if you're bad at it, you still get what you asked for. It just may be more distant from what you wanted the worse you are.
- ZoomZoomZoom 1y agoYeah, that's one way of looking at it. The other is: the whole stack is full of bugs, ambiguities, UB, wrong docs, non-covered edge cases, etc.
- vintermann 1y agoIf that's the trope, then Jesus embodies it too. Because that's very much the case in the "Verily, they have their reward" part. Wish for approval from men for your pious or charitable deeds, and approval from men is what you get - rather than approval from God/eternal life. Another example of Jesus being very non-consequentialist: why you do a thing matters completely.