God and the cosmic courtroom

1 And I shit you not, the people disputed concerning whether God was good.

2 One said: If God is God, surely God is good by definition.

3 Another said: Then the word good hath ceased to tell us anything.

4 And The reader said: Consider the whole.

5 The whole containeth birth and death, construction and collapse, nourishment and predation, sunlight and supernovae.

6 If God meaneth the Whole, what second Whole standeth outside it to evaluate it?

7 Therefore the Society saith: God is not good.

8 Good is not a relevant property of God.

9 And God is not in charge, for there is no external office from which the Whole manageth the Whole.

10 Yet let none suppose that this doctrine removeth consequences.

11 If thou strikest thy neighbor, thy philosophy concerning cosmic morality doth not unstrike them.

12 If thou breakest trust, the word sin is not required before repair may begin.

13 Ask instead: What did I do?

14 What happened?

15 Who experienced the consequence?

16 What can be repaired?

17 What will I choose next?

18 Thus responsibility survived the death of the cosmic courtroom.