Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
Also agnostic but switch between deist/atheist daily. In my Deist version God created this universe to create an equal or equals, whether we are a cog in the wheel or to be the ultimate outcome is unknown. The purpose is to be an equal to God, the path and our part is unknown.
Your avatar really suits you then. Looks like a coin of some sort.
Personally, I'm a "all opinions are part of a greater whole" type (big into the blind ppl and elephant religion analogy). So watching atheist types being like "there's no God/afterlife and when we die we just rot", and theists/deists being all over the idea of an afterlife, and Hindus like "we reincarnate, duh" I can't help but think...
Well it's like some explosives. They're in a bottle but when you crack it open, BOOOM. It's all potential energy until it gets released and becomes actuality. So when we die it's more like what we want gets released and rewrites our reality.
But no, I'm not sure if life is a test so much as an adventure that most of us seem content not to have.
Btw, interestingly enough, human bodies do tend to explode if left in certain conditions.