Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... less one created by a malevolent , sadistic deity . On the whole it functions predictably if not quite with the mechanical precision of an 18th - century clock . Its chimes still echo the music of the spheres , but the tones and ...
... less one created by a malevolent , sadistic deity . On the whole it functions predictably if not quite with the mechanical precision of an 18th - century clock . Its chimes still echo the music of the spheres , but the tones and ...
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... less successful in checking encroachments upon the rights of the unborn . " How long , O Lord , how long ? " With the same hard late - medieval logic that marked his treatment of euthanasia in Utopia ( see Chapter XVI of this book ) ...
... less successful in checking encroachments upon the rights of the unborn . " How long , O Lord , how long ? " With the same hard late - medieval logic that marked his treatment of euthanasia in Utopia ( see Chapter XVI of this book ) ...
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... less than Keat's immortal nightingale ) or Byron's heart - on - sleeve apostrophe to the elemental Ocean : " I love not man the less / But nature more in these , our interviews / In which I steal from what I may be / To what I cannot ...
... less than Keat's immortal nightingale ) or Byron's heart - on - sleeve apostrophe to the elemental Ocean : " I love not man the less / But nature more in these , our interviews / In which I steal from what I may be / To what I cannot ...
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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