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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6453)6/19/2003 4:40:28 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
You're right. The idea that God plays gratuitous favourites is the genesis of much social conflict. The existence of God or His true nature is irrelevant, of course. But using God as a club to hurt and insult others and to identify them as less worthy of Divine assistance is to expose a thoughtless and reckless mentality, and is to court dissension and conflict between people. A thoughtful person would consider the history of religious conflict within the context of the current terrorism and killing which springs from a presumed religious favour and moral superiority...and would speak with some sensitivity on the matter.

War is of course a "contest" as you have pointed out; and the motive of killing to please a supposed agenda of a prejudiced God is I suppose the least worthy of all unworthy motives.
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