The Charlie Brown Postulate

Metaphysics and theology in general are intrinsic. But too often these weighty subjects are difficult to comprehend to the average man. I do not blame Mr. Average for this separation of knowledge, but instead blame the more intellectual, who can conceive such lofty notions but cannot translate these ideas into words that others can understand. In my simple mind, I always think of things in terms of something else – a comparison, maybe. But I always strive to reduce things into their simplest terms, so that I can use the knowledge in the widest range of interests. Real truth is often simple in nature. There is a lot of difficulty in conceiving the nature of a God and it's potential relationship to living creatures of this God's creation. I may have something that, although perhaps not unique in my thinking, may assist some in these matters.

For this exercise, we make the presumption that Charlie Brown, and all of the Peanuts characters, are actually living, sentient beings (such as ourselves). We also make the assumption that the Peanuts and their world are truly two-dimensional – they are actually three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional creatures and places, but for this exorcise, we'll allow they deception to be real.

In the Charlie Brown Postulate, Charlie Brown, all of the Peanuts characters, and the entire universe that they exist in are the sole creation of Charles Shultz. He (Charles Shultz) is the God of the Peanuts. He created every one of them, knows every hair on each of their heads, controls their world, even time itself! He can destroy them with the swipe of His mighty hand, or grant them everlasting life. But Charles can never physically enter into the two-dimensional world of the Peanuts, though He could create a representation of Himself and inject this being into the world of the Peanuts to represent His will. Try as they might, no Peanut can ever truly understand Charles, nor can they conceive the parents of Charles. Now, the comparisons with our modern world may begin.

This can easily be shown to support parts of many modern religions in some capacity or another, including even the agnostic with their doubts of our ability to understand a God and it's ways. Polytheists simply suggest a team effort as opposed to the singular Charles. Even the atheist can be encompassed in this theology, if someday science and knowledge expands to embrace these things, through continued discovery and revelations of the workings, or the mechanics, of the universe. Then again, it may show me to be a fool. Time will tell (maybe).

Keep thinking, and assume nothing without the recognition that it is indeed an assumption..

John