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Alexander Pope

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Nature

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Alexander Pope means that if God does not have control, purpose, and a guiding plan for everything, then God is essentially just the same as natural forces and random events. Without these qualities, the idea of God loses its distinct role and becomes indistinguishable from fate or nature acting on its own.

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