GOD IN NATURE.
Sir-yYour correspondent "Ps.27.13" says that "even an Australian Black can see God in nature." To which- aspects of nature does the correspondent refer? Does the native see "God" in the dreary sunbaked wastes of waterless desert; in the crocodile infested rivers and streams; in the ubiquitous poison snake; in the destructive storms and lightnings that rend the sky? Nature as we know it is an unfortunate mixture of good and evil, with the various species, great and small, preying on one another. Man, lord .of all creation, supposedly given dominion over all animals on_ this planet, in his journey through life negotiates a thousand hazards. He is attacked and killed by those minute animals, the microbes. To attribute to a hypothetical "God" all that is good in nature, and conveniently overlook the obvious evils is not only naive but illogical.
LIONEL
COONEY
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 164, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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146GOD IN NATURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 164, 14 August 1942, Page 3
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