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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (8796)	3/16/2001 7:37:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

the idea does not depend on the pre-existing myth, but is a logical speculation on the assumption that the world was created by an omnipotent and benevolent God. You know, I think that's a perfectly reasonable speculation. It's the blind devotion to the myth that I find squirrelly. And the insistence on the trappings of the myth is very unsettling. If people would just say that they have plausibly speculated that there is an omnipotent and benevolent God that created the world and in which they choose to believe, I think that would be really cool. Karen

To: Neocon who wrote (8796)	3/16/2001 8:45:17 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

However, the idea does not depend on the pre-existing myth, but is a logical speculation on the assumption that the world was created by an omnipotent and benevolent God...... So your idea is a logical speculation. I think I could buy the logic of the speculation were the assumption to correspond with history. But on what basis would you be assuming, 1). A God, 2). An All Powerful God, and 3). A God that is good?? Leaving aside the myriad myths that assisted the understanding and the coping of our human forebears, it could be supposed that one could possibly conceive of the idea that perhaps there was a creator (although this involves so many problems that it seems to be reaching); But on what basis would anyone make the assumption that this assumed or imagined being would be good?? If I was to visit this planet from another star system, and I had no familiarity with any of the fiction that humans have developed to ease their torment, I would report back to my people that the creator of earth was a tragic figure--either extremely evil or incredibly incompetent. This would be my assumption based on my observations of the behaviour of these hominoids, and of the capricious and vicious world given them to endure in disease, misery, inequality, and injustice.