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

To: average joe who wrote (16082)	12/4/2003 6:37:30 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

Life is too short to be indoctrinated, or a slave to anyone or anything ... and with death as the denouement one would tend to conserve energy , seek beauty in the most elemental forms that can be grasped .... learning to row your own canoe & just use well the days .<G> Does a slave have free will even though he suffers constant indignity ? newadvent.org To be free requires constant vigilance as well as charity ....yet to have free will requires one to be constantly willing to persevere and endure. (and as ever always , you are what you consume and what you may conserve/preserve ...in today's world , one's own sanity always a good place to start!) * Raising kids on cartoons, game boys and sugar frosted flakes , does tend to dilute the perception a bit . But there's always CNN and Fox News to balance the diet out . Boredom is such a universal constant , but goes hand in hand with having free will.

To: average joe who wrote (16082)	12/4/2003 7:25:15 PM
From: antiquites	Respond to of 28931

Ditto Joe!

To: average joe who wrote (16082)	12/5/2003 6:55:13 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"Solon wants a God/State to be Santa Claus" No--not at all. I don't want a "God/State"--period. I want the State to protect people from God organizations who would usurp the right to determine right and wrong and to set punishment. I want people to live together on a rational basis under a system of rights and freedoms--including the freedom to worship. I don't know what any of that has to do with Santa's claws or any other nubile young elf, though I admit that I vote for these provocative creatures more often than not...