"Well, you kind've answered your own question by pointing to her own writings.": I don't get this...But the rest of the post, if leaving me hanging a bit about the relationship between your admiration for Rand and your belief in God, is reasonable enough. I don't see a problem with "morality without God". In fact, Kant argues that we believe in God in order to satisfy our innate sense of justice, because we must believe in a final reckoning. In ither words, morality is prior to, and commends to us, a belief in God.
I find it difficult to understand why you think God would direct/produce the play with no opinion about how it should go. And if He has such an opinion, why would he not try to at least coax us in a certain direction?
I can see how one can believe that mankind is neither good nor bad, but full of mixed impulses that need to be civilized. I do not understand how anyone, especially someone with a thorough acquaintance with children, can believe that people are naturally good.
Zen is a peculiar form of Buddhism. Most Buddhists rely on the Boddhisattvas for salvation...In other words, they pray to the various forms of the Buddha, they do not slay him. |
