Hernan Gonzalez is a very smart Argentinian whom I suspect I would have difficulty understanding even if it wasn't through the corrupting lens of Babelfish. (The Kreitzberg of Argentina?) But Babelfish does make things "interesting":
They criticize to me that I mix two words that correspond to different concepts: theism and deism. It is truth. The certain thing is that —damn artifices of the rhetoric, that they try to abrillantar to the speech and they do not do more than to grow dark— if the word "theism" were most suitable for the context, the other was lent better to the analogy (Papa/papista = Dios/deÃsta). Fault pisses.And then:
That it cannot or does not have say that "God is over the Good"... it is a thing. To say however that "the religious sphere is over the ethical sphere", is another thing; probably true, or defensible.It's long been my perception that we Christians have more of an obedience problem than Muslims. I wonder if part of it is that, for Muslims, God can command irrationalities and therefore they are less likely to ask, "but is this a good thing?". For suicide bombers there is obedience without love or goodness, but love and goodness are not the point since God is beyond categories. Obedience uber alles. Christians can go to the other extreme and simply make a judgment that no one goes to Hell because God is good, and Goodness would not populate Hell.
We are more likely to ask why of God since our religion involves reason as well as faith. Of course not everything is accessible by reason. The whys are sometimes not forthcoming, such as Job found out, but there is at least comfort in knowing that He knows and that he is never other than good.
No comments:
Post a Comment