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One God?
It seems to me that it’s more true
to say that what I see
and what I take to heart away
from any of the beauties that creation holds,
and day by day unfolds before my eyes
within the panoply
of all the realms
above, below, and here
within the bounded world --
in moon and stars and sun,
in comets’ whirls, in oceans’ depths
in cloud banks’ swirls,
and verdant plains and forests
on the earth,
in mountains’ awesome majesty
in graceful movements of sleek animals
too numerous to name --
belong in origin, are due,
to actions undertaken by
a multiplicity of gods, not one.
For, as old David Hume
has shown within his Dialogues,
the argument that Christians use
especially from teleology
to prove their god alone exists
result,
when taken soberly
and followed to their logic’s end,
in proving polytheists claim
that everything of which
the universe consists was made by deities
in numbers more than two.
to say that what I see
and what I take to heart away
from any of the beauties that creation holds,
and day by day unfolds before my eyes
within the panoply
of all the realms
above, below, and here
within the bounded world --
in moon and stars and sun,
in comets’ whirls, in oceans’ depths
in cloud banks’ swirls,
and verdant plains and forests
on the earth,
in mountains’ awesome majesty
in graceful movements of sleek animals
too numerous to name --
belong in origin, are due,
to actions undertaken by
a multiplicity of gods, not one.
For, as old David Hume
has shown within his Dialogues,
the argument that Christians use
especially from teleology
to prove their god alone exists
result,
when taken soberly
and followed to their logic’s end,
in proving polytheists claim
that everything of which
the universe consists was made by deities
in numbers more than two.
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