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The view of hell as "absence of god" is a pretty good arguement.
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I guess I'm in hell on earth. It doesn't bother me in the least. Or perhaps, like Stephen Daedalus in <u>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</u> choosing to be my own "god" rather than an agent of god is where I am. In that case, I'm not in hell.
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The part that has always fouled people up is the idea that I would be more accepting than God Himself, which while sounding absurd, seems to be a decent question.
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Kierkegaard writes of Christianity that it is the best religion to connect with precisely because of its absurdity. Existence is naturally absurd (see Albert Camus - "An Absurd Reasoning") and as such, choosing the most absurd of the religions for Kiekegaard is the most preferable of all choices.
As for this absurd question you pose, I have another: Do you think you can understand God?