The logical type distinction between existence and actuality ensures that contingencies in God pose no threat to the deity's necessary existence.
The boy behind (what was he staring at?) looks like he's never seen the transvestite son of God posing in front of a crucified skeleton before.
There they were, monkey gods and winged gods, sleeping gods and praying gods, posed around the ornate onion-domed towers of the Sri Ranganatha Temple, awaiting consecration.
Thetis Saw one of her son and Patroclus (his "Friend" was how she'd introduced him to the Gods) posing by a Prospect Park elm tree, Achilles puffing out his cheeks, his arm Around Patroclus' waist.
Xenophanes appears to have been particularly interested in identifying and discouraging conduct that failed to pay due honor to the gods or posed a risk to the stability and well-being of the city (or perhaps both).
We thought this sort of thinking died out, after it became apparent that HIV doesn't actually discriminate by sexuality, isn't actually a judgment sent from God, and poses far more of a global problem for those engaging in unprotected straight sex than gay sex.
Saint Laurent made a splash last week when a photo leaked of goth god Marilyn Manson posing for the designer's new ad campaign.
In the poem Vafþrúðnismál, collected in the Poetic Edda, the god Odin poses a question to the jötunn Vafþrúðnir, asking who among mankind will survive when the winter at the end of the world Fimbulvetr occurs.
It was in just this way, too, that the emancipation of the Enlightenment began in western Christendom, with the God of natural rights posed against that of the Inquisitors, and, once the new movement had taken root, with Locke's and Bodin's recognition that each of us contains a share of transcendence, the strongest guarantee of our inviolability and our rights.
And then he poses the impertinent question around which the rest of the book revolves: "Does God get what God wants?" Even before it was published, "Love Wins" caused a sensation.
