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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:21:48 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERA.COMspamcake
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James Brown wrote:
> You don't know there isn't a god. You *believe* there isn't a god.
And I don't know that monkeys aren't about to fly out of my butt either.
But all the objective rational evidence, that is, stuff that can be used
to make meaningful predictions, stuff that can be measured and tested,
points against it.
Your god isn't needed to explain the universe satisfactorily and he
isn't needed to construct a moral and just society. So what IS he needed
for?
He IS needed by a number of bigots and intolerants (hello to my friends
at Bob Jones University) as justification for perfidity.
Christianity as a whole can't be measured by those bigots and those
bigots alone. But when a system or moral seems to consistenty produce
flawed people who wreak havoc, perhaps we have to ask if that system
itself is flawed.
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| (...) There was a time in human history when all the objective rational evidence pointed against the earth being round. Your point? Nothing in the current body of knowledge (from a scientific point of view) can either prove or disprove the existance (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) if (...) And my point was that you can't claim to know they aren't saved either. For all you know, God does talk to each and every professed christian and influence them to act as they do. You are, in fact, *less* likely to know than they are. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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