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

To: Ilaine who wrote (2529)	10/25/2000 1:37:19 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

It is a delicate question, and as you say, relevant to the fundamental purpose of the thread. Shall we count despicable acts motivated or condoned by religion as being motivated or condoned by God? Does it really make a difference? To get back to our original topic: it was said by a religious authority that only a Godless people could carry out genocide. Yet God-fearing Americans virtually wiped out the native population of North America, and few if any religious figures objected. Were they not "real" Christians? Were they not really God-fearing? We have no way to distinguish between a person who claims to be carrying out the will of God and a person who actually is, so how shall we judge, except by putting faith aside and using our own experience and accumulated wisdom. I am not, personally, angry at or suspicious of God; it is hard to feel anger or suspicion toward something you aren't even convinced is real. Religion, like any other form of mass belief or mass conformity, gives me the creeps.