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To: The Philosopher who wrote (40178)	6/13/1999 2:30:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Read Replies (1) of 108807

"...the tragedy of many (most? all?) organized religions -- that by trying to understand/define/blame/credit God in rationalist, logical human terms they conceal and turn people off from the real God." This is a very important point. I don't understand why people seem to feel the need to define their supreme being in such detail. It's clearly to some degree counter-productive. Think of all the people who turned agnostic or atheist at the point where their childhood religion tried to tell them one "truth" too many. This, combined with the point about the limitations of our minds that you alluded to with the "ant and the airplane" analogy, is why I continue to believe that if there is some sort of supreme being(s) he/she/it/they is/are almost certainly unlike anything that anyone has described yet. We need to all remain aware of the difference between arguing that a supreme being exists or doesn't and arguing that this particular supreme being exists or doesn't. -BLT

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