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To: The Philosopher who wrote (40536)	6/15/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 108807

People who in their wondering about God set up their own judgmental criteria and then, when God doesn't meet those criteria, not merely rejecting or deciding not to believe, but actively condemning or denying. To do so requires the individual not only to disbelieve in but to actively judge God because God doesn't comply with their notions of what God should be. How can I judge an entity that I don't believe exists? I think you may mistake judgement of professed believers with judgement of God. If a person declares belief in God and insists that God has certain qualities, I can feel relatively free to point out that these qualities are blatantly inconsistent with each other and with observed reality. If I do so I'm not judging God. I don't even believe in God. I am reaching a certain judgement: that these individuals are not only holding contradictory beliefs but demanding that others hold them as well, and holding them up as the only true beliefs. Believers that attempt to define God, God's words, God's roles, God's expectations and demands, and who insist that they know exactly what God is, thinks, and wants, leave themselves wide open to this sort of judgement.

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