I've always been a bit fascinated with trying to imagine the actual logistics of how things in a deity based existence theory could work. Take for instance the merit/reward and punishment aspect. How can it work?
For it to work, it is going to have to be absolutely fair, un-biased and extremely precise. First off, god himself really isn't doing any judging. I mean, it's not like god is similar to a municipal court judge, who listens to the evidence and then makes a ruling. Facts are facts. Everything has been recorded. There is no guesswork.
In my estimation, the only way it can work is if every act, non-act, thought, whatever - of every millisecond of a persons entire life is recorded and rated and assigned a value. An extremely complex algorithm is written by god. It is so complex the machine to run it takes up an entire spirit-land stake center gymnasium. The last part though is the easy part. A machine spits out a number for every conceivable thing it thinks needs a value assigned, then anyone with a calculator does the tally.
Examples: Little Jay, who is 8 years old steals a pack of gum from the local Dairy Mart. -2 values. Little John, Jay's identical twin, separated at birth, raised by a family of thieves, steals a pack of gum. -1. Jean, another twin, steals a pack, gets caught, lies about it convincingly, later feels guilty and returns it. -2, -3.5, +2. Jack, twin, raised by fundamentalists, steals a pack. - Value pending -. See, this is where it gets sticky. God, knowing the little fellow has been subjected to - god's gonna destroy you - talk his entire life has to wait on this one. He can't know for sure yet if the kid is bad and will prob. need destroyed, or if the kid did it in an act of defiance. Contrary to popular belief god wrote into his algo. a reward for righteous defiance.
So, eventually we come to the finish line and are waiting to see if we made the cut. It's a very precise cut. It has nothing to do with mercy or austerity, only absolute fairness and a person could miss the cut by a billionth of a billionth of a percentage point. Mercy and austerity are relative. God can't just let someone in because they're really close and he's in a good mood. If he lets them in he has just simply lowered the bar for everyone.
Anyway - Happy trials
