Peter Burns
Mar 7, 2023

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Hitchens than with O'Connor. If I understood you correctly, you present different options, but lean into the view of God as being an amoral, corrupt tyrant. So in that case I also agree with you, but with a caveat.

I kind of struggle with picturing God as amoral (absence of moral or above morals). For me, the Abrahamic depiction of God is grounded in morality. And since God does a lot of immoral stuff, he's a tyrant. For me, a supernatural power/force that is amoral is something like the Tao in Chinese philosophy.

The angle I am going with is that "God" is just a reflection of human society, and an instrument for humans, rather than a depiction of ultimate reality or power beyond this world.

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Peter Burns
Peter Burns

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