(May 12, 2023 at 1:45 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Case in point. Kingpin says he doesn't know any better. He mistakenly believes that none of the rest of us can know better than him. Part of the appeal of moralizing gods seems to be as an antidote to a sort of desperation or intellectual exhaustion felt by a believer. God as the great settler, who...somehow... makes all of the apparent evil right and everyone whole..in the end.
Thats really, really hard to live by. On one hand you have f up world, on other hand Bibles promises, that doesn't add up often.