“He’s just going through a stage.”, my grandmother used to say about anyone who was doing something that wasn’t too bright or not quite right.
Catholic Fundamentalism expanded a phrase from Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”, into a theory of creation. “The Loving Programmer can program particles and energies. He compiled them into system and beings. He downloaded all His compilations into The Creation Program.
Then, after five days of work, He began to lovingly program and download each of us human programs into The Creation Program. We act out the roles we choose to play as we go through the various stages of our lives.”
Why did He do, and why does He keep on doing, all that work? The Loving Programmer wants to let each of us free will programs choose or reject He Who programmed and downloaded all there is.
We are all actors going through stages in life. Sometimes, we follow His directions as we play our parts. Then, we do well. Sometimes, our human programs become corrupted by vanity. Then, we make mistakes. Hopefully, we can correct some of them before we run out of stages.
There’s a book available on Amazon that’s called “All the World’s a Stage”, by William E. Adams. It simplifies things, and brings us closer to Catholic Fundamentalism. It costs 99 cents.