Jun. 29th, 2009

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The Evolution Of God

A poorly argued review about what seems to be a poorly argued book. The argument is that as the idea of God has evolved, it has progressed morally. In effect this is to say that social evolution has brought us to moral ideas that conform with modern moral ideas, which is a bad argument because it can never be false - obviously, history brought us to our present state, but that doesn't make our current state either right or inevitable. Where are Darwin and Kuhn when you need them?

It does seem that mixed in here is the idea that as the world gets more socially interconnected, the idea of who receives God's grace becomes more encompassing. That's at least an idea that you can think about and evaluate, though it would seem to make, for instance, the Calvinist idea of predestination into a historical blip.

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