Only in as much as it is a term used by a select set of religions or
religious viewpoints. (Some of which are institutionalized, whereas folk
usage is not.)
>
>>Is it nice to assuage our dealings with this chaos by allowing some
>>extra-natural essence some small amount of prevarication?
>
>>All gods are criminals...
>
>Define "criminal" in such a way that it does not include all intentional
>entities
>and does not rely on an external system of normative evaluation.
>
>Reed
Well, besides trying to be overly arch, any prevaricator in our karma is
a 'criminal'. As in 'memes can be virii' kind of thing. And like 'karma',
use it or don't....
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