From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu 13 Apr 2000 - 14:24:07 EEST
Richard Develyn:
>Now how do [theists] explain within their own heads that some of these
>rebel gods can do things which only their own legitimate gods should be
>able to do? And maybe do them just as well?
>For example, if some sorceror manipulated cats, clearly without any
>reference to Yinkin, would they think Yinkin was involved there somehow, or
>would they think that Malkion also has power over cats as well as Yinkin?
He would think that the sorcerer has used Malkion magic to
evilly enslave some puddy-tat,
>Or
>what might a Basmoli think if he saw a sorceror turn himself into a lion?
The sorcerer is using magic that his people stole from the conquest of
> >Malkioni: There is no God but God and Malkion is his prophet.
the Seshnelan Basmoli, or, the Sorcerer has killed a lion and foully
stolen its shape.
> >Pagans and apostates worship the False Gods for magic, and their
> >error will lead them to an evil end.
>Ok. But these False Gods still work, so they can't be altogether false.
But they work solely on the basis of destroying one's ability
to know God.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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