The Time Patrol remains an endless source of quotations and comparisons. (See here.)
Eodan captures the Bona Dea but thinks:
"...the Powers which stole everything else from him gave him victory in war, a miser's payment..." (p. 166)
Manse Everard of the Time Patrol thinks:
"A man had to take whatever the gods offered him, and they were a miserly lot."
-Poul Anderson, "Brave To Be A King" IN Anderson, The Guardians Of Time (New York, 1981), pp. 65-124 AT 4, p. 85.
See Are The Gods Miserly Or Generous?
Odin is sometimes not just miserly but false. See Who To Pray To?
When God is believed to be one, omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, then there is a Problem of Evil: why does He allow, indeed cause, suffering and injustice? - whereas, when the gods are believed to be many and finite, then there is no such problem. Life remains a mixture of good and bad, as it always was.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
We have argued about the issue of theodicy before, as you will recall. I know the Christian Catholic argument does not satisfy you, altho it does to me.
Ad astra! Sean
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