Rick and Morty’s Argument FOR God

Now, listen to me. Yes, this article isn’t just about talking about adult swim shows Rick and Mortybut it’s going to explain how the show, especially the sixth episode of season 2 (“Rick must be crazy”) actually asserts the existence of God. Now I am not naive to the feelings of its creators, Dan Harmon and Justin Royland. Dan Harmon and Justin Royland may identify as the atheists themselves (Harmon appears to be open to the world of numbers at least). The general light-empt against God, shown by Rick, a substitute for philosophical materialism and science, appears to be seen actively as he is the show’s rude anti-hero. But those who pay attention will see how emotionally and existentially this philosophy is, despite his dedication to the “truth” of his position. This does not disprove these positions, but certainly not a strong argument for their desirability.

If you have never seen this episode or episode Rick and MortyHere is a brief overview. Rick’s spacecraft batteries don’t provide any power, so Rick and Morty scale back and go inside and “fix.” When they enter the battery, we know that it’s a small community that Rick has created that he calls “microverse.” The residents of this microverse are conditioned to believe that their purpose is to move the elementary pedals, which generates battery power. They viewed Rick as God, for he created them, gave them purpose, and questioned the smallest of that purpose. Of course, Morty opposes this situation, calling it “slavery but with extra steps.”

Rick discovered why everyone stopped the pedal and therefore stopped the battery. Within this community, a unique version of Rick, a scientist named Jeep, has emerged. My own A small community known as a “miniverse.” Now, Rick, Morty and Jeep all travel to this Minives and come across another version of Rick/Jeep named Kyle. They discover that Kyle is on the verge of creating his own “Teenverse.”

At first glance, this appears to be a scathing prosecution against God (which is probably the writer’s intention). It appears to present the concept of God as merely a larger version of Rick, and that we all live in our own micro/mini/teen Vess. This may have rhetorical appeal as it is dramatic and joking, but in reality it does not argue with the existence of God. At best, it opposes God’s good. Poetry From the episode. The lack of importance is also not proven in the episode. Because it is almost impossible to prove a negativity (such as a lack of meaning), and it proves that the meaning of one value is completely subjective. But it presents two related ideas: God is merely a “big being” and the meaning of its meaning is foolish.

Ironically, the movements between these Poetry And the fact that they are all designed for purposes presents two classic examples of arguments about the existence of God, as clarified by Thomas Aquinas, one of Christianity’s greatest teachers. The first of his famous “Five Ways” for the existence of God seen in him Summa Theologiae (Part I, Question 2, Article 3), he shows what he calls the “path of movement.”

This is in fact a re-fashioned discussion from Aristotle’s movement, stating that the objects in motion had to be moved by something else. Each mover in the previous state requires more force to move all the objects after them, just like what we saw Rick and Mortyeach battery powered the community above it. To get the “last” object, the most present object to us, we need the first object that started the sequence. This motionless mover must be full power or omnipotent because it has been moving everything afterwards. Classic theists, including Christians, are called this almighty.

The joke in the episode is that the community continues to get smaller and smaller, but this could not go indefinitely and there would have been no “main” community. Without Rick, the “first mover” in this sequence, there would not be anything like the next and the next. It required more power to build the first battery so that the battery could power Rick’s spacecraft, a small part of the world. Even if they continued to move into a small, small community (insert another synonym for “small” here), they needed a first mover to start the sequence. If Rick was a pseudo-god of his microverse, will it work in the opposite direction and grow bigger? If Rick is smart enough to design the battery, wouldn’t he need something even smarter to design the world that created Rick? Finally, there I have it To become something outside nature itself to explain its movements within nature. This would have to be above natural or supernatural. In other words, it’s God.

The second argument that this episode presents is Aquinas’ fifth method, sometimes referred to as an argument from design or purpose. This argument states that everything in nature works towards a designed purpose. This is also seen in creatures that act towards vegetative and reproduction, and in non-living ones that must be moved by external intelligent things. Like logic, if something applies to every part of a group, then the principle can be applied to the entire group. This is true in nature too. When everything in nature acts towards a purpose or purpose, the whole nature acts towards a purpose or purpose. If it must be directed towards its purpose by something outside it, then what directs nature must be outside nature. The word of this is supernatural, and this classic theist and Christian would call God.

As the episode shows, the perceived triviality of the purpose can be a problem. The true purpose of these small communities is hidden from the residents precisely because Rick and others know that this revelation will lead to abandonment of their work. However, this does not disprove the design or purpose. Yes, I’m happy to feel that there is a deeper purpose. Christianity, by uniting in Christ through his body, the Church (cf. Col. 1:18), this can be reasonably permeated to a person, but whether or not you feel it does not undermine the reality of nature’s design or purpose.

Humanity was created in God’s “image and portrait,” so the purpose of humanity comes from God (Gen. 1:26). Perhaps the ancient pagan concept of God saw mankind as servants and played things, but projecting it into God’s Christianity shows a deep misunderstanding of Christianity, speaking more about man than about God. If God loved mankind so much, he chose to share that mankind freely, even when it meant pain and death (see fill. 2:6), it is not a god who lightly determines the purpose of those who share nature.

I know, I know, it’s a stupid TV showHowever, fiction has always been a means of proposing and engaging in the deepest issues of life and reality itself. This is why this outlet exists and why gallons of ink spilled into stories that have attracted the attention of humanity for years. As is evident from many other episodes of the show, Harmon and Royland take issues of reality, storytelling and philosophy seriously. These questions should also be taken seriously.