If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.

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• alexc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Given that they’re not judged until after they die, aren’t they in this state anyway?

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Being in a superposition isn’t the same as being unknown or undecided. And I was mostly thinking of their state in the afterlife.

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re not “judged” if you just “believe in Jesus Christ”. I mean, what would God even judge you on if the priest already “absolved you of your sins” and Jesus also “died for your sins”? 🙄 🤷

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aaaannnd just like that, you’ve created a new denomination.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To flesh this out a bit more: suppose Pilate locks Jesus in Joseph of Arimathea’s specially-prepared tomb with the standard Geiger-counter-and-poison setup. After three days the counter has a 50% chance of triggering, leaving the tomb in a superposition of two states:

  1. The Geiger counter is triggered, Jesus dies for our sins and is resurrected, and humanity is saved.

  2. The Geiger counter isn’t triggered and Jesus’ bid to save humanity fails. But he realizes he can still prevent the rest of humanity from collapsing into a pure damned state: he miraculously changes the wave function of the cave’s contents to be identical to 1, including his own mental state.

  After three days the tomb is opened, and a superposition of Jesus 1 and Jesus 2 emerges. Because the two states are identical, observing it doesn’t cause it to collapse into either pure state. The system remains in superposition until someone tries to observe the fate of a “saved” soul.

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• vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Haha, what a thought

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We should all be using the name less. And I don’t mean Jesus, I mean the other one. Because as far as I know Christ wasn’t a raging, unapologetic pedophile.

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• Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If Jesus is God, and God is everything all at once, Schrodingers cat is already Jesus.

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• DreamAccountant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can’t put a fictional character in a box.

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  • cmrss2@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Schrödinger’s cat was fictional, I don’t see your point

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Roman Empire co-opted the whole movement and changed their state religion and it was all because of some comic book character? Pretty stupid of them! 👀

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