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

To: Grandk who wrote (12504)	6/12/2002 4:19:14 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"I have forgotten what we were even arguing about" We weren't arguing; we were discussing the attributes of a conceptual "God". I believe that the only type of omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and complete God that could exist would entail that God is ALL and ALL is God--a sort of pantheism or even panetheism, if you will. This would imply a sentient ground behind the level of physical quanta. In this regard I don't think any particular life is more important in a universal sense than any other. Life dies continuously and is renewed in different forms. This is wonderful. People create value when they decide that something or someone matters to them. The idea that a particular "ego" should live "forever" is rather absurd, IMO. Trillions upon trillion of things die everyday. They then become raw material for new growth and new forms. There is no reason to believe that life is other than what it appears to be. In any event, it is absurd to pick and choose between the imaginations of thousands of priests and authorities and their myriad imagined gods. To which of these priests do we pay tribute? I say, send most of them packing. I find a commonality with the earth and the life which it nourishes. This is sufficient an idea of "God" for my understanding. Certainly, I outright reject the ignorance, stupidity, hatred, viciousness, ugliness, racism, and self serving conceits of most biblical dogma...regardless of what country, culture, or ideology it is generated from. The human race is surely doomed if we cannot move beyond infantile fantasies and self serving propaganda...