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

To: Greg or e who wrote (13322)	5/9/2001 12:38:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

in light of your responses to others on the same topic, I can't help but feel you are being just a tad condescending. I'm not being condescending. I haven't said anything less charitable about religion in discussion with anyone else than I've said to you directly. I think you've been a very good sport, considering the discrepancy between our views. I've expressed my disdain for religion to you openly and honestly, although perhaps not with a sledge hammer. I have also been straight-forward about my acceptance of the holding of religious beliefs by others right up until the point that they try to impose them on me. Please share with us how you would implement your obviously superior moral standards. I didn't mean to imply any general superiority of moral standards on my part. I was just addressing that one particular point that we've been discussing, which is, how are innocent nonbelievers in Jesus treated by your religion in regards to salvation. I haven't quite been able to pin it down. If, in fact, your deity would put people into a situation where they are not exposed to the opportunity to accept Jesus and then condemn them upon death for having failed to have done so, I consider that immoral. Surely you can understand why I would be loathe to worship an entity that operated on a lower moral plane than I, a humble human, do. At the risk of seeming to lack humility, I aver that I am much more charitable than to set some poor soul up like that. That's why I'm asking you what your deity would do. Karen

To: Greg or e who wrote (13322)	5/9/2001 7:20:38 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

OK Karen, lets say you won an essay writing contest, and as a reward, were magically transformed into God for a day. If I had the wherewithal to create something along the lines of the world we live in, I think I would create a justice system along the lines of reincarnation. Each soul would come imprinted with a set of rules: one's purpose would be to seek one's fulfillment however one saw fit. The caveat would be that you shouldn't use force or unscrupulous methods in the pursuit of your fulfillment. Those souls that raised their level of enlightenment in their lives would return in their next lives a more elevated level. Those who squandered their opportunity would come back at a lower level. Souls would retain some subconscious understanding of their history and their accumulated enlightenment. And anyone who tried to suck up to me would be smitten. Or is that smited? In any event, I wouldn't put up with it. <g> Karen

To: Greg or e who wrote (13322)	5/9/2001 9:07:54 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

I am God for a day. There will no longer be child molesters. The world will no longer be as you know it. Nothing will need to eat anything else. All life will exist on free energy (and free energy will be ok with that) and when a life form dies it will immediately disappear back into free energy. There will be no Evil. Free will is an illusion anyway (imo)- and so as a God I am doing away with the silly notion of it entirely. Of course no one will realize that- there will be panoplies of (apparent) choices, all equally delightful. Earth will, in fact, be more like heaven. I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have had such a world in the first place, if God had had his thinking cap on. I have mine on, and will not make the same mistakes.