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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (236083)	3/10/2002 10:26:02 PM
From: S.M.Anderson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"The mistake was humanizing this ideal of good because each civilization places its own face on God". To my knowledge God has written only once to man, the bible was written through the inspirations of God, a concept which is a bit loose for me. The Ten Commandments were the only writings delivered to man by God so that man could live without slaughtering one another. One of the Ten Commandments, which was replaced by the catholic church several hundred years ago, was that man shall not make images of those in heaven. Why ? I believe that it was because if an image of God or Jesus were made it would cause resentment to some based on the depicted color or race of the image. My point is that God has no known face only 10 universal laws, these are the common threads binding people and with which of the ten could a sane person disagree. "You can place on a pedestal the standard of the world the way it can be if we focus on that which all humans have in common rather than the one thing with which they disagree the most". If I understand your statement you want to eliminate God because people disagree ? and replace with a "standard of the world" which will be written by man. That would be interesting, humans could not agree on a standard. And when people begin fighting over the standards, then what ? I think God did a better job than man could hope to achieve.