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

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (11276)	2/27/2002 6:39:13 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

"For those whose egos blind them to a Truth larger than themselves, how pointless and barren life must seem at such times ... hardly worth living at all." ROFL and someone has an ego big enough to state the above as an established fact, and to judge everyone who doesn't see eye to eye with Himself, the Dithermeister? Someone is a little bit of an ego hypocrite.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (11276)	2/27/2002 6:50:41 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

>>I was thinking, how do those who are betrayed by their intellects into denying God, cope with such tragedies? How forlorn life must seem to those who see a universe of only random chaos. For those whose egos blind them to a Truth larger than themselves, how pointless and barren life must seem at such times ... hardly worth living at all.<< Here is a viewpoint that has been expressed before on this thread (Hi, Greg), but I fail to understand it. Why is life pointless without a diety, but not with one? If one deity gives meaning to your life, why not many deities? Is Yahweh the only way to avoid a universe of "only random chaos"? What about Isis or Athena? Would they bring some order and non-chaos to the universe? These questions are asked in sincerity, and I hope you give them thought and give me a sincere answer. Thanks, -Mitch

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (11276)	2/27/2002 7:54:23 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

People find meaning and order in life in many ways. Lack of belief in your (or any) particular mythology doesn't necessarily condemn them to lives of "forlorn, pointless, random chaos, hardly worth living". Surely the condescension and limited thinking of these descriptors isn't lost on you. Can you not see the negative impact this has on someone reading who may not find your Truth to be quite so blindingly TRUE as you? Someone who doesn't need the concept of God's Great Tapestry to excuse the horror of life when it comes to us all, as it must, along with the joy? (And please, someone who isn't emotionally manipulated by a rendition of a lovely hymn into confusing it with a conversion experience) It seems that followers of certain systems have to turn non-followers into some dark "other" to validate their own choice. ANd this "other" group has to be seen as miserable, and living in chaos, because otherwise, whooops- then what makes the believers' way "better"? But I think you all miss your chance, miss the whole message, when you assume these defensive, superior and consequently unloving, stances. Not everyone who lives life as a non-Christian lives it in a dark cave of despair. For many, life itself is its own reward, with the dark and the light, and the pain and the glory. I don;t resent your finding solace and meaning in your belief, JC, I am happy that it is there for you, but I do resent your presumptuousness in declaring the world such a dark and dreary place for the rest of us.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (11276)	2/27/2002 10:19:00 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 28931

Sitar Music or Kabuki theater <<I don't know how anyone could listen to this without the spirit soaring.>> In some parts of the world the sound of smarmy hymns is about as welcome and as foreign as sitar music. Kabuki theater isn't a good medium for Godzilla. If you really don't get this, try a nice big spoon of mustard in your coffee.