(July 30, 2015 at 1:37 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: I think that Calvinism is the logical extension of the qualities attributed to the Christian god ... except that if you accept predestination, you must abandon the idea of a god who is perfectly good. Certainly any god who creates people predestined to suffer hell for all eternity is a raging twat.
(July 30, 2015 at 1:13 am)Arrogant Christian Wrote: However, the work required no less use of effort or intellect.
In which case it merits the contempt we reserve for the genius who squanders his intellect searching for fool's gold.
It takes a hell of a smart person to figure out how to play some video games. That doesn't mean that the task is worthwhile.
The reason I included the relation to science in that century is that he may have pursued what objectively had the most basis for truth at the time. Deriding good work in retrospect is hardly useful.
