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

To: epicure who wrote (4812)	12/13/2000 1:30:01 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Yeah, but that's not what is being taught. God is all powerful and the creator of everything. This includes Satan and the tools Satan used to create evil. This goes back to the Mea Culpa of the Creator. It IS His fault, if fault is the right word to use. Perhaps, His choice is better. Now I know Greg won't have problems with God making choices. He is God after all. That's His prerogative. I, a person of freewill, don't feel bound by God's choices in which I have no say, though. That isn't free will. If it is free will then I reject that it is MINE. I'm not trying to trap poor Greg here. He is being consistent with his beliefs, which are a subset of mine. That's fine. He wants to be only good; I want to embrace good. That can be like we are doing the same thing. The major distinction is that my philosophy is forward looking and accommodating and his is backward looking and exclusionary. Ah, don't you just love THAT dualism??!! So, it doesn't matter to me WHY Greg is nice to people, it only matters that he IS nice to people and that he has a mechanism in his philosophy that KEEPS him being nice to people (even when times and values change). That is the crux of the "many paths" to Enlightenment. Seems simple enough to me.