It is an exercise in uselessness: "[B]ecause our knowledge of this cause being derived entirely from the course of nature, we can never, according to the rules of just reasoning, return back from the cause with any new inference, or making additions to the common and experienced course of nature, establish any new principles of conduct and behaviour." ... We cannot in any sense of logic speak of the deity's possible or probable attributes or actions. ... So long as we confine our speculations to trade, or morals, or politics, or criticism, we make appeals, every moment, to common sense an...

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Even though this distinction became more common as time passed, daimon would sometimes be qualified by the adjectives kakos and poneros, which both mean "bad" or "evil." ... Brenk notes that in Homer's Odyssey, "the daimon acts very much like a god, except that it tends to be unidentifiable and evil" (Brenk 1986, 2074). ...

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When you and I discuss how an infinite God can have a relationship with a finite human being there is always a sense of discomfort or of deep darkness. This is a common problem when Christians everywhere began to develop a relationship with the divine God. ... And so, on the black background of this boy's sin "down in the pigpen, out of fellowship with his father, having left home on a bad note, our Lord begins to brighten things up. ...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve....

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