In many primitive cultures, God is not portrayed as all-knowing, wise or benevolent.  He’s rather a cosmic prankster who delights in provoking, sometimes tormenting his subjects.  He may be insatiably hungry, either for food or sex.  He’ll lead people down a path and then chastise them for taking it.  He (she, it) is not someone […]

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  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2011) presents a rather gloomy portrait of the great French Existential philosopher Albert Camus (who denied being either an Existentialist or a philosopher).   He mostly brooded over the meaning of life in the face of inevitable death.  It has no meaning, he said; we are compelled to spend our […]

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