GOD IS NOT GOOD
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ORIGINATING DOCTRINE
Good/bad and right/wrong are human judgments. Actions have consequences; consequences become experiences.
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WHAT THIS STUDY IS FOR
Replace cosmic moral verdicts with attention to actions, consequences, suffering, consent, repair, and choice.
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God contains birth and death, creation and destruction, pleasure and suffering, stars forming and stars collapsing. Calling the Whole good or bad may tell us more about human evaluation than about God.
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THE ETHICAL SHIFT
Action consequence experience information choice. → → → → Not: action judgment sin guilt redemption. → → → →
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The Society can care deeply about harm without requiring a cosmic category called sin.
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Describe one action without using the words good, bad, right,
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wrong, sin, or evil. What consequences remain visible?
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