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Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"

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I Don't Like Your God Because My God Does This

We assume that the gods were there as a kind of pseudo scientific, kind of a principle to explain things. That's so, that seems to me, so silly. Gods are manifested in the events themselves. Te lightning doesn't need an explanation. The lightning is already a god. Bang, there it is. But you got to worship something. And then a theological discussion in this world is just kind of this this comparing,. You're comparing your god to someone else's godswy and i don't like your god because my god does this. These are themes that weave throughout conan the barbarian pretty thoroughly. It wasn't that they plain the lightning and all that kind of modern

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