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

To: Greg or e who wrote (2099)	10/23/2000 5:13:30 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 28931

Re: Maybe it's just me but what you are describing to me, sounds an awfully lot like God. eg (self-existent, absolute, rational, transcendent, and immanent) I'm not sure you would add personal to that list but it sounds like God to me. Indeed, "it sounds like God" --but it is not.... See, I view what I've called the Absolute Sense as a mathematical paradox because for human intellect to chase the Absolute Sense of the universe is like to engage in an infinite regression, endlessly oscillating between Sense and Nonsense. For, ultimately, an Absolute Nonsense is identical to an Absolute Sense --you (meta-)physically can't tell the difference! Religious believers have gone one step further: they've humbly chosen to crack the Sense/Nonsense deadlock while I've decided to "suspend the case".... As regards established, institutional religions, note that I for one don't throw the baby with the bathwater: religions have been tremendous cultural spurs, binding up whole civilizations and furthering altruistic values more often than not. I mean, I'm quite aware that I can't go down the street and start telling people about my Sense/Nonsense gobbledygook! Most people are rather simple-minded: they want to hear "fairy tales" about a personal God --a Freudian Super-daddy-- who created the earth in just seven days.... who later sent mankind his only son.... just to tell them platitudes such as "love one another" or "the kingdom of God is just round the corner", etc. Those are such nice, simple stories.... even the most scatterbrained scapegrace should be touched by them. However, apart from their function as "social control" devices, religions have no perennial validity.