The Fredösphere

Seed Magazine thinks about the theological implications of the multiverse.  For the record, the only emphatic rejection of the multiverse I've ever encountered was from a friend of mine who is a lefty and a strong religious skeptic.  "Where is the energy coming from that creates all those new universes?" he asked, in an obvious confusion of physics and metaphysics, which is odd coming from someone who is usually precise (to a fault) in everything he says.  But then, there's so much we still don't know—and can't even imagine—about the multiverse, perhaps in the end his question will be seen as eminently sensible.

Notice that one philosopher speculates the multiverse may imply the existence of the Multichrist, a question that has come up in my speculation a lot (heck, the mere question of aliens of any kind, multiverse or no, raises the possibility of multiple incarnations) and I'm surprised I haven't seen it (or maybe I should say, Him) more often in science fiction.  This topic probably makes some Christians uncomfortable, and exposes a (usually unspoken) suspicion some may have that all speculative fiction is inherently blasphemous.  Call it the "oh, so you think you can come up with something better?" problem.  I strongly disagree with that intuition (again, it's never articulated enough to call it an argument) but nevertheless I cannot dismiss it as pernicious nonsense.

Finally, let me confess I typed "imminently sensible" in my first draft of that first paragraph.  While I was correcting it, it occurred to me that my mistake may have been inspired.  Maybe I should change it back.

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Naw.

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