Like the man who dropped the coin inside, but went looking for it outside where the light is better.
theology
An in-law is the world's foremost authority on Nietzsche. I'm glad she was able to have a living in academia; she might've starved in the real world. But I never read anything by N (like the God is dead quote above) that I didn't think, don't know about the rest of his fillossifies, but theologically, what an idiot!
Ol' Iknaton (forgive my politically incorrect Egyptian spelling) gets a bad rap because he elevated the Sun God to represent Supreme Deity, but that crazy, starry-eyed dreamer was trying to impose the outlandish idea of One God "before all others," in one generation, to an entrenched polytheism. Yes, the media reported it as his "trampling on the religious rights" -- monotheism threatened the myriad vested interests in other deities, and when Ik was gone, they quickly got back to business as usual. Seriously, force was how things were done, one way or another back then.
Oboy! We can has theological debates on Weird Univerts! Whatz nxt? Polyticks?
My understanding is that a more appropriate translation of the commandment would be do no murder, rather than killing. [As I discovered Chrissy had already noted.]
Murder is a subset of killing.
When I began pondering the question of determinism and free will, I found myself, philosophically and theologically, going back and forth.
Enlightened theological discussion.
The long-awaited further adventures.









