Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mark From: mark@utzoo.UUCP (mark bloore) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: logic Message-ID: <3122@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 21:17:39 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3122 Posted: Wed Jul 27 21:17:39 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 21:17:39 EDT References: <501@dadla-b.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18 ok, hutch, let us say that "god's primary INTENTION is to bring himself glory". i don't see that this makes him look any better in the light of all the terrible things he has done to his people. (yes, i am judging him by my own standards. i see no reason to condone cruelty in a god that i would condemn in a human. its not as if this were a matter strictly between gods). your analogy of the self-glorifying artist would be better if the artist were also a bloody conquerer, a la alexander the great or attila the hun. the artist is harmless, or even laudable, whatever i think of his motives. the conquerer needs to be stopped. suppose the artist sacrificed his son for the sake of one of his beautiful creations. would this be a glorious thing? that is why i mentioned double standards. mARK bLOORE univ of toronto {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!mark