Very, very little about your life, about your relationships, about physics, any of it, is as simple as you think it is, or as simple as you wish it were. We as humans generally require a bit of simplification in many aspects of our lives, just to get through the day.
The Fun Theory Sequence is an amusing (if long) read. I haven't made it all the way through yet, but one of the things that stuck out to me right away is the following paragraph, part of the introduction.
Fun Theory is also the fully general reply to religious theodicy (attempts to justify why God permits evil). Our present world has flaws even from the standpoint of such eudaimonic considerations as freedom, personal responsibility, and self-reliance. Fun Theory tries to describe the dimensions along which a benevolently designed world can and should be optimized, and our present world is clearly not the result of such optimization - there is room for improvement. Fun Theory also highlights the flaws of any particular religion's perfect afterlife - you wouldn't want to go to their Heaven.
I've heard a lot lately about how dying babies means there is no god, that kind of thing. A benevolent god would never let such things happen. How God's morality must be different than ours if that is the way it works. That kind of thing.
Scott Adams has some pretty solid views on religion. I'm not certain he would approve of this use of the ideas behind his blog. And yet based on all I've learned from Scott, I'm forced to ask: why does everyone think that life, the universe, and everything is so complex, so feature rich, so full of wonder, and yet insist that God, "His Plan" and Heaven must be simple?
I'm not asking you to take my word for anything. But I am asking you to wonder if things mightn't be more complex than anyone has ever suggested to you before.
