(urth) Appearances of Inire

[António Pedro Marques]

I honestly think top-posting usually isn't helpful - maybe it's early 
afternoon drowsiness but I can't grasp your point.

John Watkins wrote (01-07-2010 16:31):
> Tdazkiel's people are themselves artificial...awfully difficult to blame
> God for their control over the universe.
>
> 2010/7/1 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com
> <mailto:entonio at gmail.com>>
>
>     Option 2 I think is untenable.
>
>     - If God is good, then it makes no sense to create a universe in which:
>       + God's creatures are toys in an evil power's hands
>       + God's creatures believe that the evil power is not evil at all
>     and is doing God's work
>       + those who oppose the evil power are not, generally speaking,
>     better people than the others, and in fact seem to be worse.
>
>     - If God isn't good then by what standard can we call such an
>     unfathomable being as Tzadkiel evil?
>
>     Keeping option 3 doesn't mean that the acts of Tzadkiel need no
>     atoning for, it just means they're done with the best of intentions
>     and knowledge. We have a saying here, 'Of [people with] good
>     intentions is Hell full'.
>
>     Antonio
>
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