From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 12:23:44 MDT
Barbara Lamar writes:
> If it considered us no more than a feature of the landscape (and my
> best guess is that this is the way it would see us), then it would
> neither feel friendship nor enmity towards us. It seems as though it
> would, from our point of view, be no different from what we now think of
> as "forces of nature." (sometimes referred to as "acts of God")
True, but the vengeful God of the Old Testament was transcendent,
albeit sometimes reaching into affairs of this world with a meddling
hand. The City of God was conveniently located elsewhere.
This particular Pantheon (or, rather Pandaemonium) will be in the here
and now. Divine indifference is not good enough for us to make it. We
would require active protection to survive.
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