[betty boop]

You fail to comprehend everything I write. What seems to be the problem?

Well I figure it might have something to do with the following, singly or in combination:

(1) I am an empiricist, and you are a rationalist.

(2) I am a realist, while you are a nominalist.

(3) I live in First Reality, and you don't. Evidently, recently you decided to "resign" from First Reality — which has God at its head and at its very root.

And thus we have extreme difficulty getting on the same page....

I didn't say you held God responsible for human cupidity/culpability. Indeed, I was trying to hold man responsible for his choices. God did not make a fully determined system; he left man free.... Free even to make really bad choices....

[kosta50]

I didn't say you held God responsible for human cupidity/culpability.

Then what do you call this: "And so you [kosta] blame God for human cupidity? For human backsliding?"

[grey_whiskers]

Betty, according to your article's definition, you are more a Lockean/Burkean; kos is a Rousseauian / Voltarian.

In other words, he's Fwench.

(I'm surprised we haven't had Gibbon quoted at us yet.)

Cheers!