Comments by "Guy Who Likes Ecclesiastes" (@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts) on "Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror - The Story of Call of Cthulhu" video.
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I feel that lovecraftian thinking is a natural, horrifying consequence of Atheism. If the universe is unguided and random, there is no creator God to order things rationally, things aroynd us seem rational to us, but that is purely an accident. Why wouldn't there be beings other than us? And why wouldn't those beings, having had an almost infinite time to evolve and grow, be orders of magnitude greater than us and utterly incomprehensible? I trust, in part because the universe IS ordered and structured that there is one, benevolent God, but for an Athiest like lovecraft, something else could naturally fill that gap.
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