ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors provide their responses to philosopher and other authors to the various religious positions. The philosopher and other authors are Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Trichur S. Rukmani, Charles Taliaferro and Jerome Gellman. The deontic conception of the normative root of society revolves around the notion of Law – tribal Law or Dreaming Law. To say that Daoism spans the deontic and the axial is not, however, to say that Daoism fully accomplishes the transition to the axial perspective. The key point of convergence between living cosmos panpsychism and Hindu philosophy, as outlined by Rukmani, is with respect to the ultimate nature of reality, which in Hinduism is called 'Brahman'. Taliaferro's defence of Christian theism in the face of the problem of evil is a variant of the 'best of all possible worlds' argument God devised a scheme that necessarily included pain and death.
