The Wizard

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 06 Mar 2012, 22:20 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:20:17 -0800
Subject: (urth) The Wizard
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Jerry Friedman wrote:

> I believe one could?make a case from the Christian point of view
> that God is good in a dark way, since he kills lots of people and
> condemns people to eternal torment.? I hope the Christians here will
> correct me if I'm wrong, but I can see Wolfe believing that God, who
> created space and the stars, is good in every way, including the dark way.

No correction from me. C.S. Lewis put it very succinctly: "Aslan is
not a _tame_ lion." God is good but he isn't _nice_.


-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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