Lovecraft v. Calvin (Preview)

[zonemind]

I am working to complete a monograph attempting to answer a challenge by Chad Underkoffler to explain what I meant by a throw-away comment linking the maltheism of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with my childhood experience of Calvinism. This is the short form answer

Comments

[chadu]

Aha!

Looking forward to the whole thing.

[notthebuddha]

When the "infinite power and infinite sadism" is multiplied by the relative ease of appeasement, I find YHWH-Calvin's horrific prominence greatly diminished. Unless we're talking about the flavor where there's a hard limit of 144,000 Elect?

Also, there seems to be a doctrinally-correct way to strike back and actually hurt Yog-Calvinoth, but I won't spoil THE RAPTURE if you haven't seen it yet.

[zonemind]

For various reasons, as a child, I was reasonably certain I was not one of the Elect. In point of fact, I was quite certain that God hated me, personally.

That was ridiculous, of course, but I was a child -- the logic of children is rarely subject to peer review. So, when I encountered Lovecraft for the first time in my late teens, the notion of cosmic horror was so earnest and so unscary it was almost cute. Almost cute is practically a euphemism for "annoying".

But, I shouldn't get ahead of myself.