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

To: Greg or e who wrote (19515)	3/16/2005 4:23:21 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

<Open your eyes and try to make your views of life consistent with one another. > I have a pretty consistent philosophy, Greg. If you understood anything about me, or had even read and digested any of the several thousand posts I've made, you'd know that. I'm a creature of logic. That's okay, I can tolerate a world view such as yours - but it will not include me because you can't make reasonable people understand the imperative to accept it without taking the whole Bible as unquestionable, literal truth. There is no REASON behind it, there is FAITH. A philosophy that is decoupled from sensate reality in which I exist is irrelevant for me. Nobody organized the Bible into a comprehensive story. It has no real beginning, middle and end in terms of MEANING. Some scholars were opposed to including any of Revelations because it is part of the apocrypha. It is simply a myth. It is another myth that humanism is amoral. And, yes people do complain when holes are drilled in cockroaches. Lots of people are moral vegetarians, members of PETA or have other indications that they are bearing a consistent morality based upon a fundamental respect for life, in all its forms. Lots of people recognize that animal research is vital, but should be carefully monitored for excess pain or distress. That, is a consistent philosophy. To say that we can use animals and the environment as some sort of entitlement until the end days (a common part of some Fundamentalist dogma), is not consistent with the fact that humans and animals have a common ancestry and probably have very similar first person perspectives.