From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 21:36:11 MDT
In a message dated 9/20/00 7:10:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Dehede011@aol.com writes:
<< Spudboy,
I think if you read a little among Christian theologians you will find a
quite different take on the God question. BTW, that last sentence may
include a lot of Jewish theologians and others; it is just that Christians
are what I am familiar with.
Many people consider the old and new testament as the story of man's
attempt to come to grips with the question of God. Under that approach they
would all be properly labeled as "searchers" or some such.
Given the vastness of the universe I find many discussions of this
subject beginning with "I believe........." to be presumptive. In addition
given that no one has yet hauled God kicking and screaming into either a
laboratory or a courtroom to testify under oath then it appears that many
statements testifying to the exact nature of God to be equally presumptive.
A searcher. >>
There are vast differences, for example, between Judaism and Christianity,
then say Islam and Christianity. Lots of philosophers and theologians, as you
already know, would like to bring God to court, many for breach of promise!
Saying I believe is a statement of honesty, saying, I know, is where the real
presumtion comes along. We don't know, and its also ok, for someone to say
"I don't care" at least its honest, and it free's people up from carrying on
a crusade against the religious or quasi-religious. MY opinion is just like
Chucky Marx, the 19th century transhumanist, who believed in classless
societies and that Religion acts as a pain-killer for life's miseries. My
only concern is that the painkiller may not be powerful enough. Until
technology can change the human condition, what to do? Soma anyone?
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