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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (363)	8/11/2000 9:33:24 AM
From: booters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

<Religion was this law. Judgement,punishment, by a angry god the court system.> I think you are probably correct. Let me ask you this. Did the God of the court system you speak of come first or the God of fire, the sun God, etc. I think God at first was the answer for unsolved questions. Who makes that big ball of fire rise up in the sky every morning?....Must be a God. Then somebody came up with the idea that if a God had that much power he could also punish people for doing wrong. That is when the whole deal probably turned messy. Who gets to make up God's rules? The ruler. What rules will he make? Ones that benefit him. Why did the masses empower him? The masses do not feel empowered and search for leadership. ( Wow, what a scheme) <Religion was this law. Judgement,punishment, by a angry god the court system. This could explain the apparent need for some sort of spiritual meaning in our lives.> I'm not sure I understand your connection to spiritual meaning. Why would this court system create a desire in me for spiritual meaning? Do you mean to protect myself mentally from the horrors of the court? boots

To: pezz who wrote (363)	8/11/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

That is early humanoids needed law to enforce the co-operation that was so essential for our success. Religion was this law. Judgement,punishment, by a angry god the court system. I think you are being very kind to impute foresight, coupled with morality, to those that were powerful enough to seize the helm of myriad prehistoric tribes. It was very rational (ahem, again) in those times of limited knowledge and absence of science, to try to get on the best side of the primitive Gods that helped those who were obsequious with them, and opposed those who challenged them (wouldn't you know it!). I don't know if cooperation required the aggrandizement of those particular elite folk that were a couple of intellectual steps ahead of their brethren. The law givers may have just represented opportunism, and the principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest. I suppose both answers may be correct--in different situations...depending upon how cynical we are.