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

To: Grandk who wrote (12456)	6/11/2002 3:34:14 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Did God go outside of Himself to create? Did God find space, time, matter or spirit outside of Himself?

To: Grandk who wrote (12456)	6/12/2002 12:02:27 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

God is infinite. Whatever He creates He can also cause to cease. Only God cannot cease to exist. Men make God disappear all the time , JK ...and then there are places where they are seeing God everyday , no matter how poor they are . It is often been something hugely beyond the Christian comprehension , that the Hindu will allow the cow to wander freely thru the village or city , and even though he might be starving will not harm the cow. And yet doesn't the Hindu keep the Lord's very first commandment by not killing ? All the learned priests , mullahs and rabbais of the world will inform you that cows do not have souls . Heaven is only for men who read from their books and keep to the laws that they made up , but pretend God spoke to them. Cows do not go to heaven or have souls , and that is just silly nonsense. The follower of Mohammed or Jesus just cannot fathom it , but perhaps they are too busy just reading from their books to peer more closely at these other living sentient participants in "life" , and give them the reverence and respect they were always due. It was once so easy to portray these others as satan worshippers and lost followers of the devil , and just superstitious ignorant people given to all kinds of strange ritual and sacrifices....but unlike God's chosen people the Jews who sacrificed animals by the thousands in the sacred Temple in Jerusalem , this is exactly what the Hindu did not do. The killing of animals was always strictly forbidden , and only reverence for other living things. If the truth be told , wouldn't it be a far far more terrible world than we live in now , if the Hindu decided to plot and deploy and wait in ambush to kill every Christian he meets , because of the mass slaughter-houses they harbor in their countries and the eating of meat, and call it "The Work Of Their Lord" ? Go on a Crusade or Holy Jhiad ? Instead they produced a Mahatma Ghandi .... But that is also exactly what they haven't done , so there must be something there for you to learn . A simple lesson of the sacred cow , which to the Hindu represents "Joy", that deep spiritual joy that comes to the one who loves, cherishes and reveres all forms of God's creation. And all creatures being on that path . It's a funny world isn't it ? There may be much that is true coming from out of all men's experiences with life, love and living from every culture . But it is a far better world that 1 billion Hindus decide not to take revenge on you for condoning the mass slaughter of animals, which they abhor. Much probably that the Hindu/Buddhist can teach Christians and Islamists, and much the other way around . But who are the ones that condemn so much and have the deaf ears ? The cow , such a simple beautiful providing creature , I have never had a problem with holding them sacred . What I do have a problem with , is Christian Missionaries in India trying to force convert Hindu children as they always have done with their half-baked superstitous theology and rituals of their own . ...but then again , in Christianity you have two great saints at least I know of that lived to become good Hindus ...one was called Francis and the other was called Jesus of Nazereth ... hehe ;-) regards Mars