Epic Poetry and Psychological Complexity (was NPPF Canto 1: 1-4 some random notes)

[slothenvypride]

Why don't you read Paradise Lost and THEN comment on what's being said, instead of trying to grapple with that Genesis chapter you read back in CCD classes, dipshit?

 

David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:


Well I'm not arguing dogma, just the facts presented in a story, but the story
I've focused on is not Milton's version, but my own understanding of the
Biblical account. So we may well be speaking across each other.

[...]

Like I said, I'm not really arguing Milton, but I guess I agree with his Satan.
Milton's God doesn't take responsibility for the beings and world that he
created. And he could easily have fixed the mess after it happened (I know,
that's supposedly Jesus' job, but it come a little late). Would you put a
child into a kitchen with an electric stovetop on at full throttle and tell the
child, "Don't touch that?" If the child touched it you would bear some
responsibility.

David Morris




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