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Divine Tyranny and the Goodness of God
In Is God a Delusion?: A Reply to Religion's Cultured Despisers. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 58–75 (2008)
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This chapter contains sections titled: The Concept of Divine Goodness as a Tool of Criticism The Divine Command Theory – or, How to Strip God's Goodness of Significance The Fundamentalist Attack on Divine Goodness The Problem with Young Earth Creationism Concluding Remarks.Author's Profile
Plutarch's view of things ‐ who thinks of God as a tyrant, not religious but superstitious plenary verbal inspiration ‐ infallible God Bible ‐ testament to the encounter with God Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson ‐ God who fulfills our ethicoreligious hope God struck Uzzah for the offense of reflexively touching the Ark of the Covenant Israelites to put to death ‐ man who curses his father or mother, commits adultery, sleeps with another man Wise struggling with the conflict between science and his religious beliefs
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