God: An Anatomy - As heard on Radio 4

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Couldn’t even be bothered with that. The questions simply don’t arise. And yet here is the really striking thing. However you want to measure a society’s health—whether it is literal, physical health, social welfare, education, happiness, living standards, life expectancy—these countries are at the top. So here is very convincing proof that it is perfectly okay not to be a believer. Well that’s one of the clinchers. If you’re going to ask where everything comes from and who designed it, you really do have to ask the same of God. So if you put forward God as the explanation for nature, you’re also going to have to ask who made God. Blasphemy #1: In choosing Lattimore’s secular translation (no columns, chapters or verses), I count this as a work of fiction rather than revealed truth. Jesus as incarnate God is complicated, irritable, demanding, charismatic, much like Yahweh in the Old Testament. By the end of Gospels, he has become a man with a deeper confidence in his destiny and yet more of a mystery to us. It is not surprising that Christians who lose their faith in God seldom lose their faith in Jesus. The secret of its success is the way in which powerful and original arguments are woven into an elegant dialogue between three thinkers. The dialogue form is hard to pull off in philosophy, and Hume is one of the very few since Plato to be able to manage it. His announced topic here is “natural religion”. This is contrasted with “revealed religion”, and it means the sort of religious conclusions one can arrive at by reason rather than revelation. So for example, if somebody says “I know that Jesus wants me to do this, because he came to me in a vision,” or “because that’s my reading of scripture,” then that counts as revealed religion. On the other hand, if someone were to say that he is going to behave in a certain way, or that he believes in God, because of certain rational arguments, then that is natural religion. God is certainly not like us: he doesn’t have emotions and wishes in the normal sense. So that’s one thing. But the first task Spinoza set himself in the Tractatus is to undermine the traditional notion of the Bible as the inerrant word of God. (In fact, the Tractatus is arguably the first serious work of biblical criticism.)

Blasphemy #2: There is something elemental in this novel about the life of Jesus that is absent in the Gospels, and I would make this a set text for anyone studying the nature of Jesus, as the fullest expression of the journey from carpenter to cross – from man to God. The last section of the novel, so reviled by fundamentalist Christians, is one of the most mysterious, imaginative, enthralling and moving passages in all literature.

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Everyone assumes that. But it is not in the top ten. It’s not in the top 20 or 30 or 40. It’s number 43, according to the United Nations. And the biggest single reason for that is that tens of millions of Americans cannot afford health care, though there are other factors too. All effects have a 5% chance to occur with each hit, and have a 12 second cooldown after activating before it can activate again. They deal 60% fixed plus 40% randomly (20% fixed, 40% randomly in PvP combat) of the maximum damage numbers (this is incorporated into the ranges given). The damage dealt is a percentage of ability damage (weapon damage in legacy mode). Damage boosts that are applied during damage calculation (for example, ultimate abilities, prayers, Void Knight equipment, and the Slayer helmet) do not affect the god book's special effect. Damage boosts applied after damage calculation (such as auras, Keris, Darklight, and Balmung) will affect the god book's special effect. In my new novel As a God Might Be, Proctor McCullough fears the possibility of an authentic encounter with God; not a feeling or vision, but a genuine meeting. What happens then, he wonders. Claim it as true and the world will think him mad. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Yes, God does make an appearance – sort of. Whether it is really him, we can only wonder. If Icy Tempest is active, the hit cap of the Time Rift effect from the Scripture of Jas is increased from 30,000 to 32,000 damage. Making an illuminated god book requires the completion of One Piercing Note as well as 60 Crafting and Prayer. Completing each illuminated god book for the first time awards 10,000 Crafting and Prayer experience.

As ye vow to be at peace with each other... and to uphold high values of morality and friendship... I now pronounce you united in the law of Armadyl. I suppose if one were to think of Scandinavia and the States, one thing that might spring to mind is the relationship between the individual and the government. That in Scandinavia the majority of people appear to be relatively comfortable with government, that they do not resent it, that they trust it. Whereas in the States, if you think of the constitution, much of it is there to protect the citizen against over powerful government. And that historically America’s Founding Fathers were religious men fleeing persecution by their government.Roger Lambert, former Methodist minister, ageing theology professor, a disciple of Karl Barth, is a curmudgeon, adulterer and consumer of pornography. Dale Kohler, is a graduate student, evangelical Christian and computer scientist. The latter thinks he can discover God through mathematics. There is no opinion that cannot be proven true...by crushing those who choose to disagree with it. Zamorak give me strength! Blasphemy #3: Can it be true that towards the end of this extraordinary short story, for a brief moment, God incarnates himself in a prattling, selfish grandmother? That for some reason God decides to become a direct witness to an individual’s suffering, but not of the woman whose family has just been murdered and is about to be killed herself, but of the psychopath, who in this moment realises his distance from God. There are few more moving lines in all literature than those spoken at the very end by grandmother; few more moments more devastating when we realise it will make no difference. If God is dead it’s because the Misfit shot Him. May your bloodthirst never be sated, and may all your battles be glorious. Zamorak bring you strength.

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Yes. It’s a very Socratic approach. And as an unbeliever myself, I think that technique is a much more effective way of showing religious people the error of their ways…