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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: The morals of God
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Date: Sat, 14-Jan-84 09:40:30 EST
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Ed Pawlak needs to add one more assumption to his list, at which
point the argument about the morality of God becomes once again
reasonable.

	There may be more than one of them.

Note -- there may be none at all, but just because for the purpose of
argument I assume that the Christian God exists doesn't mean that I 
assume that Pan, Athena, Tara and a whole host of others don't. I have a
plethora of gods to chose from, so how do I make a choice, even if the
choice is to reject the whole lot?

Confession time -- I believe that the most basic truths are moral
truths, not existential truths. (You can all read the Concluding
Unscientific Postscript by Kierkegaard if you want to know why,
he does a much better job than I do. It won't make you into a
Satanist -- Kierkegaard is arguably the greatest Christian philosopher
of all time. He spent his whole life (except for what he considered
'excesses of youth') trying to demonstrate the subjective truth
(the only kind he believes in, since he believe that truth is
subjectivity) of Christianity. Just don't believe everything that
he says about Paganism -- he got some bad data there somewhere
which he never learned was bad until rather late in his writing
career).

from this perspective, it is not surprising that I want to know
about the morality of any god -- long before I want to hear about
his existence. Existence doesn't move me (since I think that an
existential system of logic is impossible -- see the Concluding
Unscientific Postscript again) but Goodness does.

if god is simply the prime mover that keeps the laws of nature
from changing tomorrow, then i don't care. I would be as likely to
love my terminal than such a god. (of course, such a god probably
would be uninterested in my love). The only gods that i care about
are ones that I can love, and I can't love a god that is immoral.

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura