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


To: Solon who wrote (16086)12/6/2003 10:00:59 AM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
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 the State to maintain roads and punish those who infringe on the freedom of citizens. Anything more gives the State too many attributes.

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Rejection of Pascal's Wager

"Christianity persecuted, tortured and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified...extermination and tyranny...it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God."
George Santayana (1863-1952)

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To: Solon who wrote (16086)12/6/2003 7:46:32 PM
From: average joe  Respond to of 28931
 
Underlying the Soros argument is his belief that any economic system - communism, market capitalism, communalism - calcifies into tyranny when it also becomes a sort of state religion.

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