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

To: E. Charters who wrote (18915)	12/10/2004 12:29:58 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Not that perfection is possibly attainable or would be enjoyable either." Speak for yourself. There have been a lot of incredible people who walked the face of this earth, the few that we know about, i.e. Socrates, Joan of Arc all paid the ultimate price for disrupting the society of their day.

To: E. Charters who wrote (18915)	12/10/2004 12:05:55 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"If you absolutely absolutely knew there was an afterlife would you get anything at all out of this one?" And in the afterlife...would homosexuality start looking good after 316 trillion tears (I mean years)? Would doctors spend all their time scrubbing in front of an empty OR table?

To: E. Charters who wrote (18915)	12/10/2004 12:52:54 PM
From: briskit	Respond to of 28931

I'm reading a Polkinghorne advent book of reflections during the season. FWIW, which I expect is not much, he was a professor of mathematical physics at Cambridge. He might have won some scientific awards and all even. I don't know if by "jerks" you mean everyone, or just religious people. In any case, Polkinghorne quotes Niebhur saying that there is really only one observable Christian, or perhaps religious, doctrine--and that is the distorting consequences of sin, if you'll pardon the use of an offensive and often misused word. There is a sense by many of things being twisted, a certain slantedness, a crookedness in human relations and experience of ourselves and others. It's worth considering whether the possibility of an afterlife offers the possibility to get more out of this life. Enjoy your reflections. Freud, Stephen Hawkings, many other agnostics/atheists concluded with nihilists that life here is pretty much a mess when considered against the backdrop of infinite emptiness and material mortality. Polkinghorne would disagree. Peace in yo hood.