13 March 2012 5:15
am Moscow
it is interesting to learn that Malthus was an
"annihilationist" (that hell was not eternal for those who failed in
the growth-of-mind) and that he viewed human suffering via famine, poverty, etc
(natural and moral evil?) as means by God to human development.
i must consider all of this more closely, and widely, again
later, but it begins to seem to me as of a piece with the human exaggerated
sense that he can understand the world and "God". many have rejected
"God" because "He" "allows" evil, and disbelieved
in "God" because Darwin "proved" we are 'apes' (vaguely
stated). well, if Genesis is no longer convincing, neither, in my reading, is
the human ability to explain himself materially. elementary school humans may
be upset that Darwin proved Moses wrong ∴ we are
apes and there is no "God" -- but it seems to me that the human
history of ideas shows that humans imagine too much of their own capabilities --
which becomes even more convincingly popular in the institutions called
universities.
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