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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: E who wrote (2900)	10/28/2000 1:51:29 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 28931

It would be horrible to think that any omnipotent God would let the kind of human misery you describe in your article about India continue, simply because it served some divine end. No human would be justified in creating such misery for any end- how can we possibly cut a divine being more slack than we would cut a human? And sadly that is just one instance of the vast well of human misery in the world. Surely an omnipotent deity could find better ways to shape its means than to use such horrors to carry out its wishes. And why, if an omnipotent being WISHED to cause such horror, would you worship that being? That's like worshipping Hitler. He had horrible means which were justified by his ends too- but most people don't accept that you can morally cause that much horror, no matter how good your cause might be (and, of course, I'm not saying Hitler had a good cause, because I don't think he did. I am speculating on some other human that might have a really good cause which could only be won with vast quantities of human suffering). I hold God to that same standard.

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