It's not enough to appeal to a higher power (either God or Oprah).
Either God makes a measurable difference in the universe, or his doesn't.
"Either God is great and not good, or good and not great".
This will not be a normal country, but it will not collapse either, God willing .Iraq's neighbours are watching nervously.
But, before long, living side by side in peace and tranquillity, we could all say either "God bless the United States of America" or "God bless the Federated States," as the case may be.
Consider, again, the argument: "Either God exists, or 2+2=5.
If Anselm's principle is correct then either God exists without the possibility of not existing or God's existence is impossible.
The reason is that saying this forces a dilemma: Either God is a person, or God is not.
For example, either God is in different respects necessary and contingent (NC), wholly necessary (N), wholly contingent (C), or neither necessary nor contingent (O).
So, by virtue of his grace, either God would love all persons to an equal degree or the fact that he might love one person more than another would have nothing to do with the fact that the one has a greater degree of merit or excellence than another.
A common worry about absolute space in the eighteenth century was that if space is infinite, necessary, and indestructible then either God is not the only infinite, necessary, and independent being or God is identical to space, both of which were theologically unacceptable.
