For the first two “then”s, the conclusions seem plausible but far from the only possible ones if the possibility of (knowable) gods were taken seriously. It sounds like saying that if you live under an unjust government, you should act like it doesn’t exist until you get arrested, rather than either accepting it or trying to fight it.
For the first two “then”s, the conclusions seem plausible but far from the only possible ones if the possibility of (knowable) gods were taken seriously. It sounds like saying that if you live under an unjust government, you should act like it doesn’t exist until you get arrested, rather than either accepting it or trying to fight it.