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To: D-fendr; James C. Bennett
Literalism. Applying modern standards to ancient cultures and writers, anachronistic or lack of context

Oh, so now you are applying relative standards to what is supposed to be the absolute truth?

Is there any point to anything in creation? Is there any justice inherent in the universe or is it all completely capricious?

I asked you the same thing. What's the point of sulfur volcanoes on Io, or for billions of galaxies in the visible universe? Do you see any "justice" in that? Where is "justice" in the Holocaust? What is justice anyway, except a convenient abstraction, which, like beauty and other related concepts, is in the eye of the beholder?

Why do innocents suffer? And what, then, is the value of being innocent?

Well, if you know, then tell us.

1,439 posted on 02/16/2011 9:26:05 AM PST by kosta50 ("Spirit of Spirit....give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again" -- pagan prayer)
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To: kosta50; James C. Bennett

Thanks very much for your responses. I look forward to hearing James’s.


1,444 posted on 02/16/2011 11:40:09 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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