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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Solon who wrote (28058)	1/15/2010 10:54:48 PM
From: Crossy	Read Replies (3) of 28931

Solon, so far I couldn't sense atrocities in the New Testament but I may be wrong. I cannot deny that spirit may be a projection of our brain. However I cannot refute the existance of any higher authority either. The question is whether this matters at all. Being influenced by Deism, I believe that this higher authority might have created the cosmos but doesn't interfere with it anyway. What is more, all forms of Pantheism (of which Deism is one stream - John Locke maybe among the most prominent) reject the existance of a man-like god (the stubborn bearded old-man) anyway. Whether some form of existence will be after my death I don't know (yet) but I'll find out and I hope it will be a nice experience. Finally, almost all religions are subject to the "Theodizee" problem (sorry - English isn't my native tongue so I used the German and French word for it) - it means that it can be philosophically refuted that God can't be benevolent, all-knowing and omnipotent at the same time, only two of the three are plausible. What intreagues me about the Marcionites (who weren't a "gnostic" cult) and some Gnostic cults later (the Bogomils and the Catharers) was their internal coherence in their teachings and most of all their USE of religion - use scripture teleological to fight and withstand injust power by worldly or pappal authorities. Hey, some even qeustioned the authority of the "central power" to collect taxes. No doubt, they were highly dangerous to the worldly authorities of their time. This leads me back to the start of my "adventure". I am interested in religious HISTORY to find out the telelologic consequences of cults - what where they used to, how were they useful or detrimental (to the powers of their time) and not so much for their religious content. Also I like to compare how these cults viewed the indivduum in the context of my own belief. hope this helps to explain my posting CROSSY

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