NPPF - The Big G

[David Morris]

549:  “While snubbing gods including the big G,”

Why would this be a logical starting point for exploration into the
“hereafter?”  If the intent was not to be partisan, that still wouldn’t rule
out some “G” or another.  Kinbote’s comments on the subject and his reported
conversation with Shade on the subject show K at his most lucid and insightful.
 IPH’s offhand rejection of God ignores Aquinas, which is at the heart of K’s
argument w/ Shade (although he attempts to quote Augustine).  ((BTW, I’m just
barely conversant with these guys)).  It is very interesting that the
possibilities IPH tries to prepare the newly minted ghost for do parallel the
kind of afterlife K reasons is likely if there were no God-the-Designer.  It is
a torrent of currents and spiral eddies, a chaotic mix of ethereal forces
without order.

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aquinas.htm
Thomas Aquinas:
“The greatest work of Thomas was the Summa and it is the fullest presentation
of his views. […]This follows from the fivefold proof for the existence of God;
namely, there must be a first mover, unmoved, a first cause in the chain of
causes, an absolutely necessary being, an absolutely perfect being, and a
rational designer.”

Augustine:
“In [Christian Doctrine] Augustine then states the essentials of Christian
belief in God, with a most important preamble: God is ineffable, that is, we
can say nothing truly meaningful about one who transcends the categories of
human language.”

I believe one of Aquinas’ major points is that since God is unknowable by human
means, “Revelation” is absolutely required, which means GOD has to do the
unveiling of himself, not the other way around.


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