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


To: Grandk who wrote (12275)5/10/2002 11:12:04 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
"Can you not perceive that the God who created all would know what it is within each of us to bring about the utmost joy?"

Many abortions are done within seconds of fertilization by God (if there were such a beast). Do you think they had "joy"?

Most people who make it to birth live in misery, hunger, and squalor all their lives. Do you call this "joy"?

Even Thoreau declared that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. And he was talking about his educated peers whose malaise was in the heart rather than the stomach. The Buddha knew: all life is suffering.