Posted on 03/16/2009 6:19:18 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
"God exists, and he's American" is the judgment of Dr. Milton Glass, fictional nuclear physicist from the acclaimed Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic Watchmen, when he learns that Jon Osterman, has come back from the dead. Osterman disputes Glass's judgment, but the new deity's protest rings as hollow as his promise of fealty to his first girlfriend.
In the story, Osterman dies in a freak lab accident that is the stuff of countless superhero origin stories. It utterly obliterates his body but leaves his mind intact and powerful. Osterman then re-creates himself from scratch. He is not just reborn but transfigured and renamed, as the world's oddest crime fighter: Dr. Manhattan. By the end of the tale, Manhattan even talks of Osterman as a different person.
Obviously, Dr. Manhattan looks different. He has the skin of a Smurf, the body of a Greek god. He crackles with energy and can manipulate other matter with the same ease that he reconstructed himself. Less obviously: His changed perceptions bracket him off from the rest of mankind. He can see things at the molecular level but is puzzled by basic human emotions and conventions. His women complain that they can't connect with him and he often walks around in his rebirthday suit. He perceives time differently as well -- the future and the past run together.
Dr. Manhattan is clearly a sort of god. After the mystery at the heart of Watchmen is resolved, he professes a newfound fondness for human life and muses, "perhaps I'll create some" -- elsewhere in the universe. But what sort of a god is he?
Enter: irony. One group that is not likely to come out in great numbers to see the new film Watchmen is members in good standing of the
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Brother or Sister, open your eyes!
Try real hard!
You believe what you are told by men. Imagine for a moment that I really know God.
explain God without friendshp!
I am a conservative Christian. Is DU a better place?
I’ve been there - I followed Joseph Smith who believed he too talked to God. I will never again trust a man over the word of God. Men are often deceived.
Does God tell you things that align with the Bible? That is the proper check to see if God is speaking to you. If he is telling you something different, something not aligned with the Bible, then the god who speaks to you is not my God.
The Bible is an interpretation. It is a confused explanation of the truth compiled by blind people.
God is love. That’s it.
Does God Lie?
No. God cannot abide a lie or a liar.
Did you skin change color?
God is not only love. Love is ONE of the attributes of God. God is also JUST among eternal, holy, infinite, and jealous . Look it up. What does God’s justice require? You’d better ask yourself that question.
You’re wrong.
If God doesn’t instruct you, look it up. Otherwise, listen.
Then God is wrong. I speak from knowledge. He loves you, but He needs your love too!
Don’t just take. Give!
I am not religious. This is something YOU do not grasp. I follow Christ. He has set me free of religiousity.
It cannot.
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