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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Solon who wrote (28252)3/10/2010 3:45:33 PM
From: Greg or e  Read Replies (2) of 28931
 
"He evaluates all matters in accordance with his feelings, and gives no heed to objective values or ideas.

Some follow this God literally, and use him to determine and to justify their own actions. Thus, we see His most ardent followers displaying intolerance, hate, jealousy, spitefulness, insecurity, and other attributes of evil and of weakness.

It is for this reason that I ask: Should God be replaced? Is it time for a new CEO? Is it time to discover a God based on acceptance and love...rather than on fear? Can the human race advance beyond the killing fields, while it yet mires itself in emulating the evil traits of its many anthropomorphic Gods?" siliconinvestor.com 11:33:20 AM
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"NOW, you know full well that saying that "intolerance, hate, jealousy, spitefulness", etc. may be attributes of evil is not at all like saying that people are evil because they fail to conform to your (my) arbitrarily derived moral construct."

You are again being as dishonest as you think you can get away with. You didn't say "intolerance, hate, jealousy, spitefulness", etc. may be attributes of evil"
You accused some of the "followers" of actions that you then call evil. If you want to play your little dishonest word games and claim that accusing people of doing, "displaying" and "emulating" evil is not to accuse people of being evil then you can do that, but any reasonable observer knows you are doing just that. Your subjective objectivism is an oxymoron, as is Rand's.

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