Timeline for Why does the Doctor not believe in Satan?
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| S Nov 27, 2018 at 18:05 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Nov 27, 2018 at 18:05 | comment | added | Null♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 22:14 | comment | added | Upper_Case | @Adamant This is already a show about a spacefaring, time-travelling, body-transforming, immortal being who happens to end up on Earth between 1850 and 2100 a stunning proportion of the time. The only thing scientific about any of it is writer fiat. The Doctor presumably doesn't believe the religious trappings that go with "Satan", even if based on a real thing. I don't believe that Captain Jack Sparrow is a real person, even while I believe that Johnny Depp exists. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | Adamant | @jamesqf - It sure could have fooled me. It's like Superman - the only thing scientific about him is writer fiat. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 18:16 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Adamant: The important point is that it ISN'T supernatural, just as for instance a giant squid isn't, however exotic it might seem to land-based mammals. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 18:03 | comment | added | Adamant | And that's what it basically means for the Beast to be an alien. It's from space. It's a supernatural entity as old as creation that comes from space instead of Hell, but that's the only distinction. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 18:00 | comment | added | Adamant | Saying you don't believe in Satan because he doesn't live underground seems like quibbling to me. A lot of people thought supernatural beings literally resided in the heavens, back in the day. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 13:07 | history | edited | TheLethalCarrot♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2018 at 11:10 | history | edited | Parrotmaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a note explaining my meaning of "Angels" in the current context.
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| Nov 26, 2018 at 10:46 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | +1 Terry Pratchett Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees. | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 10:26 | history | answered | Parrotmaster | CC BY-SA 4.0 |