Is Anthony Freemont the Christian God?
Or the God of Islam? He certainly seems like he could represent either.
shareSeriously? I don't get the question. Or are you just joking?
If you'd explain what you mean, I'd happily discuss it.
Little Anthony was a child who had NO wisdom or compassion, just a lot of power which he wielded to satisfy himself. He allowed no one to practice their free will, he just punished everyone who displeased him, which was just about everyone.
I don't see a higher being allowing anyone to practice free will either. Most Gods throughout time give you a choice: either agree to be their sycophants forevermore or suffer eternal pain. You can choose not to worship the God du jour, just like you can choose not to kiss Anthony's ass, but your decision not to fall in line will inevitably send you in either scenario to a cornfield of sorts.
share Well that's interesting, thanks for the quick reply. Why do you say though, that God does not give "free will"? Would you rather that you have NO will?
"Most Gods?" There is only ONE! LOL
I don't see myself as a sycophant when I worship God and thank Him for all He has given me. No one knows for sure where they or anyone else will go in the afterlife. Only God knows what is in the heart of a person. If someone lacks faith but they are trying to live a good life without worshipping a Supreme Being, only God knows what they feel. You mistake God for a lot of organized religions who pass judgement on people based on how they "keep the rules."
Anthony Fremont did NOT create life, so it was not up to him to pass judgement on people. Are you saying that the God of the Universe has no right to judge His creation? Of course if you are approaching this topic from a secular, atheist or agnostic view, I suppose you would say that.
For myself, I worship God, I sin, I mess up, but I know God always gives me another chance. Anthony Fremont offered no redemption. He was just an immature little boy, wanting his own way, drunk with a power which he did not understand.
If Anthony Fremont is anything at he's a poster child illustrating the virtues and necessities of crucifixion.....
shareThanks for your insights. As someone who has struggled with religion all my life I appreciate a person of faith kind enough to talk to me.
As Robert Ingersoll once said, and I paraphrase: "We read the bible under the scowl and threat of God. We read under the glare of Hell. On one side is the Devil with the instruments of torture in his hands. On the other God ready to launch the infinite curse. And the church says to its readers: 'You are free to choose. God is good and he gives you the freedom to decide."
Dan Hollis wants to hear his Perry Como record. Anthony doesn't like singing. Let's say you, in Jesus' afterworld, mean no offense but are curious as to what a holy book like the Bhagavad Gita has to say. But Jesus doesn't like the Bhagavad Gita, or other holy books that aren't his own, and turns you into a walking horror just like Anthony turns Hollis into a jack-in-the-box.
"It's A Good Life" is a comment on tyranny and I don't think it's too far of a stretch to say all the Abrahamic Gods display tyrannical tendencies. I mean Jesus says at one point that those who don't accept the baptism will be damned. Does that sound like free will to you? Dan Hollis had the free will not to listen to Anthony and play his Perry Como. But doing so turns will turn him into a jack-in-the-box ... If Tony Sopranos says to me "I'm all about free will. So here's the thing: agree to pay me protection money or I'm going to disembowel you." Well, what choice is the right one? Obviously, if you're not a fan of pain, which I'm not, then paying protection money is the right choice.
There are 50,000 kinds of Christianity so not all Christians think of Jesus the way I just described him. But a lot do. And those people, like those trapped in Anthony's world, worship their God not out of love but out of a fear of being, among other things, set on fire.
And Anthony does create life: he turns animals and humans into whatever he likes. And he uncreates life too as Serling explains in his opening he made the whole world disappear other than the town he occupies. Did he send the rest of humanity to the Cornfield? Or is our world untouched and his town and its occupants in a dimension of Anthony's making? I don't know.
In the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Jesus is accused of killing a kid. Maybe Jesus was innocent. Or maybe, like Anthony, he didn't understand his own powers and killed this kid without meaning to. Anthony could very well be Jesus before Jesus figured with great power comes great responsibility.
You're a whole bag of issues... I'd love to sit in on one of your therapy sessions.
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