There's also the possibility that Joshua was lying. I dunno, though--the Gnostic mythos might make sense, but I'm not sure it fits, considering that there's no way (yet) for humans to break past the demiurge to achieve union with the true God. One of the things Doug Cowan argues in his book Sacred Terror, though, is that horror as a genre capitalizes on fear of breakdown in the sacred order, and taking the "watchmaker God" idea to the extreme that God won't directly intervene even when creation starts tearing itself apart... pretty well qualifies, IMO.
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Date: 2011-11-07 12:33 am (UTC)I dunno, though--the Gnostic mythos might make sense, but I'm not sure it fits, considering that there's no way (yet) for humans to break past the demiurge to achieve union with the true God. One of the things Doug Cowan argues in his book Sacred Terror, though, is that horror as a genre capitalizes on fear of breakdown in the sacred order, and taking the "watchmaker God" idea to the extreme that God won't directly intervene even when creation starts tearing itself apart... pretty well qualifies, IMO.