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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Theodicy' and 'The Statesman'

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29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 1. Monotheistic Religion

1782	Stoics teach that God is a unity, variously known as Mind, or Fate, or Jupiter [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

19437

Prayers are useful, because God foresaw them in his great plan [Leibniz]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul

20830

Death can't separate soul from body, because incorporeal soul can't unite with body [Chrysippus]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil

19337

How can an all-good, wise and powerful being allow evil, sin and apparent injustice? [Leibniz]

19345

Being confident of God's goodness, we disregard the apparent local evils in the visible world [Leibniz]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / d. Natural Evil

21404

There is a rationale in terrible disasters; they are useful to the whole, and make good possible [Chrysippus]