Tuesday, May 3, 2011

A quote from Clarke's 1st response to Leibniz


"Suppose a king had a kingdom in which everything continually went on without his regulation or interference—without his attending to and ordering what is done in his realm—it would be a ‘kingdom’ only in name, not in reality, and this ‘king’ wouldn’t deserve that title. ·Well, there’s no smoke without a fire·! If someone claims that in an earthly government things can go on perfectly well without the king’s ordering or dealing with anything, we can reasonably suspect him of wanting to get rid of the king altogether. Similarly, anyone who maintains that the world can continue to run its course without the continual direction of God the supreme governor has a doctrine that does have the effect of excluding God from the world."

This made me lul. Not to say that I believe God is the one governing, but theres gotta be something else going on in the universe. Makes me think of "Anarchist" punk teenagers

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