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The Wisdom of Carl
When a bishop from the American West prays for God to intervene and end a devastating dry spell, why is the prayer needed? Didn’t God know of the drought? Was he unaware that it threatened the bishop’s parishioners? What is implied here about the limitations of a supposedly omnipotent and omniscient deity? The bishop asked his followers to pray as well. Is God more likely to intervene when many pray for mercy or justice than when only a few do?
The extent to which humanity can respond to the serious challenge before it depends on to what extent people get to understand what is really going on, and their willingness to abandon old morality in favour of new. Salvation is not private, it is collective. Our deity is not transcendental, she is real, she occupies the same space as we do, and we depend on her wellbeing. Nature serves us unconditionally. Our duty is to offer Her service in return. The ancients saw their duty as serving their gods. They were right, but our deity is real and needs our attention. Holiness is not an abstraction. It is fulfilling a sacred duty to the Goddess. It is Adelphiasophism in practice.
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