Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
> if it's true that he's got no tact,
> it's only because, well, i mean, he's f****ing god, after all. why the
> f*** does he *need* tact?
>
*****After him [Descartes], Malebranche and Leibniz will apply that same reason -- which knows only by judging according to its own measure -- to the justification of God. What had been called _natural theology_ will henceforth be called _theodicy_, and, setting out to comprehend the divine ways in order to render them acceptable, will religiously prepare the way for atheism. All that He has done is well done because it is He who hath done it, said Christian reason. It is He who has done all, since it is well done and since I know why, and besides, He is bound to do the best, says Leibnizian optimism -- a materialized and corrupted scholasticism which woudl not only have seemed impious but absurd to a Thomas Aquinas.**** Jacques Maritain, _Distinguish to Unite or The Degrees of Knowledge_, tr. Gerald R. Phelan (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1959), p. 226.
Carrol