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

To: Greg or e who wrote (703)	9/6/2000 5:45:45 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

>Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.< But if he requires people to worship him, and he gave men free will because he wants men to worship him with free will, then he does "need"- because he wants. And he gets angry when his wants are frustrated. And unlike even the harshest parent I know, he would condemn his own creation to Hell if it does not worship him. Of course when the Bible was written tenderness in a family was at a minimum (as you can see when Lot offers his poor virginal daughter to satisfy the lust of a mob). So perhaps the God of the Bible WAS made up to be like parents of old- and so let us thank our lucky stars that times have changed. And let us hope that the Bible falls away- and that some new belief or philosophy takes its place- that allows men to be moral, without needing to condemn their fellow men for not believing in the same thing, as long as they too are relatively moral men- who weigh the harm they do to others carefully. I have such a morality. I wish you had it too. But I do not condemn you. And you won't (in my cosmology) be going to Hell- unless you choose to make your own life a living Hell.

To: Greg or e who wrote (703)	9/7/2000 11:24:26 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Todays Bible reading for your edification The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line F58 is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. Psalm 19:1-6