Over the past two day, I have had two deadly serious conversations about what to do in the event of zombies. You laugh, but you are wrong. Laughing is not will you do when you are confronted with zombies. If a zombie attack is broadcast on the radio, not on the Fox but on CKNW, you will be tempted to run, you will jump in your car and head for the free way. But where are you going? You don't know anything. you are not prepared and traffic jams are just zombie armies waiting to happen. No, a boat or a bunker is the way to go and you want to avoid crowds.
Do zombies change your theology? How do zombies fit into morality? I think if I experience zombies I will stop believing in God not quote Ezekiel 37 and be jubilant about immanent rapture. How about everyone else? Are you prepared to kill zombies? What if they are rage/vampire zombies like in "I am Legend" i.e. they are just "sick"? Will you still believe in God when zombies walk the earth?
Note: Resurrection is not the equivalent of flesh eating zombies.
Thanks Noah for working through these important issues with me.
God goes out the window as soon as zombies arrive.
ReplyDeleteInteresting question, Zombies by definition are supernatural -- (of a manifestation or event) Attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature -- so for those who upon seeing the risen dead (undead) still have time to ponder and philosophize it may perhaps present evidence for the existence for the existence of God(s) or at least magic/the miraculous. Not necessarily the Christian God – more inclined to Voodoo Deities or perhaps Egyptian (erroneously equating Zombies with Mummies for that stretch…) – but certainly it would increase the empirical evidence for a “power”. It would certainly give me pause – before I head to the nearest S-Mart sporting goods section…
ReplyDeleteAs for the morality of flesh eating Ghouls – of the undead variety, not creepy cannibals or transubstantiation literalists -- not certain they would qualify as a moral question, more like survival of the species. Would you stop to wonder if a Zombie was “saved” before blowing its head off? Probably not. Would you feel guilty about it afterwards? Possibly – if you knew the person/creature before their transmogrification. Would you kill them if they were just a “sick” (as in physically not mentally) person(s)? In self-defense, more than likely, in defense of family without hesitation…
Daniel.
Dan you make a good point the risen undead are perhaps excellent evidence of a deity just not the one I currently believe in. So for clarity: Christianity, in my opinion, goes out the window the day the dead rise and eat flesh. Also the word "transmorgrification" is excellent.
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