The human world, the human kleptocratic world, is governed by human judgments. Some kleptocracies pretend to be guided by divine judgment: Christian European states, for example. But till God is heard from (so all would know it's God speaking (how would that ever happen?)) all we have are the Christian kleptocracies' word for it.
I believe in God's judgment: provided we understand God to mean truth: the actual territory, not some human representation, some "map" of the territory. But that judgment (the truth) will never be known by human kleptocrats. Or it may be approximated by individuals both intelligent and honest, by you, by me (on our good days): but the moment we form a group, a society, with compulsory school and military service, and taxation, and media run for profit ... No, no, no.
I was just recalling some human judgments portrayed in the Old Testament. Genesis has Lot visited by some angels. The nasty neighbors take the angels to be men: good looking men. The neighbors demand that Lot give his guests up to the neighbors so they can bugger them. Lot offers his virgin daughters instead. And God reduces Sodom and Gomorrah to rubble. But just before, did the Sodom Gazette report that the Sodomites had misidentified some victims for rape? No, no, no.
Trouble is, we only get to read the earthly judgments: while the exceptions, like pk's writing, gets ignored, or misrepresented, censored ... while pk is jailed.
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