… and I can’t imagine a Christian that wouldn’t be, with Pascal’s Wager as a CAUTIONARY backdrop.
“Consequentialists” or Utilitarians or any “the ends justifies the means” freaks drool over the TROLLEY PROBLEM … but it’s a Skinner Box, it’s a torture chamber. As with the Milgram Experiment: it might just be Doritos for the brain.
The MILD FORMULA: dogs, cats, food, babies saved by dogs or cats while eating cake … stories about cooking stew in the woods and sailing to Patagonia. Stories about how CHEVY CHASE won WW2 and other READER’S DIGEST SKY MALL bullshit … mild, inoffensive, banal, trivial ephemera … dust bunnies of the mind. And CRYPTO … don’t forget to pump that shit.
Some other mild and relatively inoffensive topics:
“From space, the masters of infinity would have the power to control the earth’s weather, to cause drought and flood, to change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, to divert the gulf stream and change temperate climates to frigid.” – LBJ, 1958