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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

461	God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere [Empedocles]

466	God is pure mind permeating the universe [Empedocles]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

1719	In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife) [Aristotle on Empedocles]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

5699	If matter wasn't everlasting, everything would have disappeared by now [Lucretius]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

5707	The universe can't have been created by gods, because it is too imperfect [Lucretius]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

5710	Gods are tranquil and aloof, and have no need of or interest in us [Lucretius]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

5731	Why does Jupiter never hurl lightning from a blue sky? [Lucretius]