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

To: briskit who wrote (16185)	1/31/2004 4:21:01 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"But as Kierkegaard and existentialism say, we are a mixture of mortality and a longing for symbolism which reaches beyond our physical limitations. Some say in light of that, that we have something within us that fits with God, and will not know peace until we connect with god"..."My bet is that is right." I don't see how a longing for symbolism encourages a belief in "God"--particularly not the kinds crafted by our primitive forebears in the Age of Superstition. It seems to me like petitio principii--God must exist because otherwise I would not be separated from Him, as evidenced by my disquiet. Hmmm...