> Nothing here to trouble an atheist
Whether or not my view might trouble an atheist or not, is not something I
can definitely predict in advance of research. To the extent that atheists
wish to close down theological schools, religious studies departments,
churches, temples and mosques and so for
Jurriaan wrote:
"...my particular view of God is...that...God refers to a universal
characteristic of the human (sub-)conscious mind, which every human
being gets gratis in virtue of being a member of the human
species...We could be more or less aware of that transcendent human
quality, the highest
Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> I'd love to know what a whopper mits is.
>
and do they serve fries mit that?
--ravi (sorry for b/w waste, couldnt resist)
Justin wrote:
> so how can there be an all-good,
> all-knowing, and all-powerful God whopermits . . .
I'd love to know what a whopper mits is. All-powerful indeed.
Carrol
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>
>There is a very powerful argument against the existence of a a 3-A God:
>the problem of evil.
>
>jks
>>CB: Yes, and are those who are agnostic about God agnostic
wledge.
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Greg Schofield wrote:
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> It could be said that God exists is so far as it
> is a projection of (hu)man (which p
Beginning in 1978 Zecharia Sitchin - one of the world renown linguist,
revolutionized this field of inquiry - including a substantial translation of
Gilgsmesh, with his "12th Planet," "The Stairway to Heaven." "The Wars of
Gods and Men," "The Lost Realms," "When Time Began," "Devine Encounters,
Greg Schofield wrote:
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> It could be said that God exists is so far as it
> is a projection of (hu)man (which puts a different
> twist on atheism then the simple contention that
> it does not).
No it doesn't; the claim that god is a human projection _presupposes_
the non-existence of god,
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Good points below (Jim and Charles). It could be said that God exis
See Jeffrey Russell Burton's 5 vols. on the Devil from Cornell
U. Press. And, yup, I can't imagine say, Hans Kung or Jurgen
Moltmann, say believing in that guy with horns and pitchfork.
BTW, Proctor & Gamble has for yrs. been, 'er, bedeviled, with
allegations over the yrs. by Xtian fundies tha
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
>I always liked Lennon's (not Lenin's) definition:
>
>"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
>
>Though I'm not exactly sure what it means.
And there's Wallace Stevens' line - "sad men made angels of the sun"
Doug
I always liked Lennon's (not Lenin's) definition:
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
Though I'm not exactly sure what it means.
Charles writes:>Your view sounds like Marx's. Marx doesn't say God doesn't
exist, but that God is alienated man ( which I take to be humanity). And
directly to what you say, he says the basis of irreligious criticism is man
(sic) makes religion, religion doesn't make man. ( A feminist critique mig
Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> >
> >Or
> maybe He doesn't want to, or can't do anuthing about it, or doesn't know?
> Any of these hypothese are inconsiastent with the usual three-A God.
>
The key lines (God himself speaking)in Milton's dramatization of the
"Free Will Defense" are:
But yet all is
>
>There is a very powerful argument against the existence of a a 3-A God:
>the problem of evil.
>
>jks
>>CB: Yes, and are those who are agnostic about God agnostic about the
>Devil ?
>
>
>JD: I wasn't raised as a Christian, but as I understand that faith, it's
>humanity that's the source of evil
There is a very powerful argument against the existence of a a 3-A God:
the problem of evil.
jks
^
CB: Yes, and are those who are agnostic about God agnostic about the
Devil ?
*&*&*&*&*&*&*&
JD: I wasn't raised as a Christian, but as I understand that faith, it's
humanity that's the sourc
>
>"Devine, James" wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > As far as I can tell, there's no logical argument either for or against
>the
> > existence of "god."
>
>^^^
>
>CB: First , what is God ? Next, I would call for a combined logical and
>evidentiary argument on the issue ( maybe Jim D. implicitly mea
Joke:
God called Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Gates. He/She said to them;
"As the three most influential people in the world, I just want to let you
know I am destroying earth in three days. I'm sick and tired of the fact
that you humans can't get along, and I'm cancelling out on the w
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