RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 8, 2021 at 10:08 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2021 at 10:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Flawed but free stands in as a placeholder for more perfect™, in that context. Which is fine as far as it goes, as a belief that people might hold about relative perfection - but it does make a jumble of the implicit assumption of a gods perfection. A flawed but free god would be similarly more perfect, if that's a standard of perfection that holds, rather than a convenient excuse for a contradictory point of data.
We might notice that broad swathes of pagan gods fit that bill. Flawed, but free. This isn't useful to a legalistic and transactional religion, though, because the divine intercessor cannot be relied on. If doing these three simple things gets you a ticket to the afterparty, you don't want to hear that the doorman might not accept it anyway. That freedom has to be stripped away from the divine in order for it to suit human needs and desires.
We might notice that broad swathes of pagan gods fit that bill. Flawed, but free. This isn't useful to a legalistic and transactional religion, though, because the divine intercessor cannot be relied on. If doing these three simple things gets you a ticket to the afterparty, you don't want to hear that the doorman might not accept it anyway. That freedom has to be stripped away from the divine in order for it to suit human needs and desires.
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