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To: TimF who wrote (71164)	7/31/2003 11:42:59 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I don't see your post as addressing the issue I was addressing. The complaint that God is being "unfair" or "unkind" implies necessarily that God out to comply with our human notions of fairness and kindness. It iimplies that we deserve to be able to understand why God does what he/she/it does, and that we have both the ability and the right to judge whether God is acting rightly or wrongly in certain instances. That's not the same thing at all as trying ot judge things for ourselves in lieu of blindly accepting human authority, even when that human authority claims to be divinely inspired. Just because a person claims that God says this is the way it should be, of course, doesn' t make that so. God will do what he/she/it deems right under his/her/its value system. What I resist is the notion that we have the ability to understand and the right to judge that value system, any more than an infant can understand and judge the value system which leads adults to pull them away from interesting things like open fires, or stick needles into their arms.

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