Well, too, any metaphor for goodness is limited by its metaphorical quality--if you think about a reality of endless light, you end up thinking about headaches and heat stroke and insomnia (if you're me, anyway). That's why I liked a line from a Henry Vaughan poem: "there is in God, some say, a deep and dazzling darkness"
There's plenty of evil about in the world, so it's not that I can't believe in cosmic evil--it's just that I'm frightened by the concept. Which, I guess, is as it should be. If there's cosmic evil, then it's a frightening thing.
Lots of religions (or aspects of religions) imagine a constant struggle of good and evil.
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Date: 2011-04-15 02:11 pm (UTC)Well, too, any metaphor for goodness is limited by its metaphorical quality--if you think about a reality of endless light, you end up thinking about headaches and heat stroke and insomnia (if you're me, anyway). That's why I liked a line from a Henry Vaughan poem: "there is in God, some say, a deep and dazzling darkness"
There's plenty of evil about in the world, so it's not that I can't believe in cosmic evil--it's just that I'm frightened by the concept. Which, I guess, is as it should be. If there's cosmic evil, then it's a frightening thing.
Lots of religions (or aspects of religions) imagine a constant struggle of good and evil.