[text; wee hours of the morning]

[medalsome]

Do you believe in God? Gods? Do they exist where you're from? What about angels or demons or anything like that?

Where I'm from the existence of gods is hard to deny. People are pretty devote and religious. Church is an intrinsic part of our culture. It takes someone pretty hardheaded or self-centered to deny the existence of higher powers, but here there's not much emphasis on religion. Guess I'm just kinda curious now. Is it more like my home in your worlds, or more like this one?

[Joaquin may be slightly drunk, or perhaps he's just tired.]

Comments

[thegriffinofdeath]

It's never been an issue for me before, really. I've known one god or another all my life.

Science is...well. It's important enough here that I can see why it has outweighed things like faith. When you can do the things they can do, a God that never appears can seem almost unnecessary.

[medalsome]

I think you hit the nail on the head there. The people in this world, the natives, they don't generally feel a need for faith because of science and the lack of God. Really, now that I think about it, I wonder why the porter itself isn't seen to be a deity.

I mean, I know there's been talk about Lachesis and stuff, but I don't know much about how that deity relates to the porter. But they are connected somehow?

This might be something to look into.

[thegriffinofdeath]

They know it's a machine. A machine they don't understand, yes, but still. A machine. Given the way they lean into science.

Hm.

I wonder if you could consider science the god of most of these people...

[medalsome]

Science? A god?

... I'll ask Newton next time I see him.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Save you the trouble, dude: science is not a god.

[medalsome]

Oh. Okay.

[Embarrass him why don't you]

[driftsintobuffetline]

The thing is, people, when they don't understand shit, like to assign it "god status"--so yeah, people could be worshiping the Porter. People worshiped the Kaiju. I mean, people worship the sea, or the sky, or the wind, or other things that they interact with that they do not understand but that they either want help from or want to appease.

[medalsome]

But how do you know they aren't wrong for thinking that way? I know in your world there are ways to understand how things work and it's easy to say there's no god

But I've seen them Newt. I know they're real, even if maybe not in the way I original thought. Hell, I mostly only ever thought of the Christian God before but I know there's more of them out there back home. They just aren't what I expected.