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: Greg or e who wrote (3534)	11/29/2000 3:57:47 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

I doubt "To doubt is the first step in gaining knowledge." Good!! You are on the way! You doubt! If you really doubt, then your first impulse would normally be "check your facts". I think that race (a term I don't think is very useful and most anthropologists agree) is always an issue. People respond best to those that look themselves. Studies have been done on infants (who presumably aren't racists) and they respond best to those who look like their mother. In an interracial couple, the infant will initially respond better to an unfamiliar black man (if the mother is black) than the natural father (assuming he is some other race) in the first day or two after birth. We all do this to some degree. It is adaptive and is called imprinting. All animals do it. It is really funny when birds like geese do it to something like a cat!! The interpretation I give to this is that it allows people to act without regard to "other" people as non-Christian, non-equals. That may or may not be racist, but it certainly is tempting. Now if my belief says we are all born into a state of grace (it does!!), it makes it kind of hard for me to commit horrible acts and be excused for it later by my God.