Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: IntelliCents who wrote (2296)	10/23/2000 4:32:18 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Interesting. I was raised in a very religious environment, by parents who were raised Protestant but converted to Catholicism in their teens (an unusual combination). I was inundated with things Catholic from the beginning, but I don't recall a conscious moment when I took any of it seriously. I clearly remember the day in Sunday School when I decided that original sin was a lie, and realized what this implied about the rest of the story. And I have ever, for a fraction of a moment, felt that I was missing something. I have never suffered the slightest touch of anything that might be described as an impulse to worship. Some have it, some don't. To me it seems an incomprehensible drive, just as the religious might think it impossible that I don't feel that something is missing in my life. The Bible I read is based on being written by men through "Divine inspiration from the Holy Spirit." No other book can proclaim that. I'm not convinced that this is the case. As an extreme analogy, meaning no offense, if a million people proclaimed tomorrow that the Manhattan Yellow Pages were a product of divine inspiration, would that make it so? Is there really any more or less evidence to support this contention than there is to support the claim that the Bible is divinely inspired?