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To: spirited irish
Then Dostoevsky's premise for Crime and Punishment would be correct:

"Without God, all things are permissible."

Who's "right" is right?

173 posted on 10/03/2011 11:34:15 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: SparkyBass

“Without God, all things are permissible.”

Who’s “right” is right?

Spirited: Augustine was of the same opinion. In the city of man said Augustine, libido dominandi makes for right. And then there was John of Damascene who described the pre-flood world as barbarism. Barbarism because “right and wrong” was nothing more than the wicked desires of men whose wills were entirely evil.


177 posted on 10/03/2011 11:54:00 AM PDT by spirited irish
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