What you’ve written seems like a very good argument in favor of us being a simulated universe.

“There is a Universal Consciousness, and there is a Higher Force at the core of our being.”

“The kicker, in my hypothesis concerning the problem of religious diversity, is that the actual God/Goddess/Instructor/Universal Consciousness/Divinity out there is cool with whatever image of him/her/it/they we come up with. Divinity — in a divine way, I really don’t mean this as casually as it sounds — goes along to get along.”

This is how a player relates to a game, and how a programmer relates to simulations. When my son plays Minecraft, I have watched him in creative mode, hatching a hundred ocelots only to slay almost all of them, because they were not the right color.

“I consider it to be the ultimate being, never to this date adequately described by any religion; a teacher of infinite intelligence and practically unlimited power, who can manipulate memory and matter and time and space, which it does for this reason; To demonstrate fallacies to individuals or groups of individuals so that the rest of the pupils in the classroom may observe and decide which notion of the universe and its physical and possibly paraphysical attributes is the valid one.”

This is something I’ve said often about religion, and it is, frankly, one of the ideas that really disturbs me about religion. This notion that other human beings and lives on earth are simply sprites, opportunities for moral lessons and expression. This is also being explored in WestWorld and BladeRunner. Does the idea of consciousness change the way we treat others and how we value their ideas or their pain? Does it change how I understand cancer if I think the person was given cancer in order to show me how precious life is? If God allows Job’s family to be killed, because he wants to prove something to Lucifer, then what is good about God?