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According to Forberg, as Gerrish interprets him, "if the way the world goes is calculated to produce the final success of goodness, then there is a moral world government [i.e., the moral world government that, according to Forberg, religion is "a practical belief" in]; otherwise there is not" (Continuing the Reformation: 136). But what is meant, exactly, by "the final success of goodness"? Does it mean -- as it certainly appears to mean -- that the way the world goes is calculated to secure that goodness is finally rewarded even as badness is finally punished? If it does, then Forberg's view is at most verbally different from what I've characterized elsewhere as "the view that moral commitment is meaningless unless the world is such that 'absolute justice' will eventually be done – understanding by 'absolute justice' a state of affairs in which there is an exact proportion between the past deeds of a person, good and bad, and her or his present condition of weal or woe" (Notebooks, May, 1989; rev. 10 October 2003).

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