LETS GOOOOOOOO (General hangout thread)

[Clancy]

So, I've come up with some new story ideas; even though I'm not as invested in them as I am in my more hard sci-fi concepts, I think they'd still be fun to share.

I'll be outlining them in separate posts, so in no particular order, here they are...

Supposing that God exists, why is there still evil? This story offers a solution: though our universe's God is benevolent, It is engaged in an endless battle with a malevolent God from another universe, an anti-matter universe that is a dark mirror of this one. This Anti-God was banished to the anti-matter realm at the beginning of creation by our God, but nonetheless managed to exert Its influence into our universe, where it subverted our God's attempt at a perfect world by introducing evil. It was this Anti-God that tempted Satan to fall from grace, that introduced Adam and Eve to sin, and that convinced Cain to murder Abel.

Now, because the positive-matter universe has been irreversibly corrupted by evil, God fights a losing battle against Anti-God, who is forever tempting souls into evil so that they can be drawn into the mirror realm (which in this story is the inspiration for the Biblical Hell). To make things worse, Anti-God's machinations are aided by a cult of human worshippers who believe that since Anti-God corrupted human souls with evil, that evil and cruelty are thus humanity's "divine spark" that makes us unique. Thus, the cult engages in acts of crime, terrorism, and general evil, in order to usher in the apocalypse and make Anti-God victorious.