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

To: average joe who wrote (19855)	4/27/2005 9:55:51 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

That brings back memories of working through Edmund Spencer's "The Fairie Queen" in college. In that work despair is the one unforgivable sin.

To: average joe who wrote (19855)	4/27/2005 2:39:41 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Despair, ethically regarded, is the voluntary and complete abandonment of all hope of saving one's soul" For people who do not believe in a soul or whom are agnostic to the proposition--this definition has no relevance. I agree that for a believer in souls...utter abandonment of hope would take a positive act of Will. Then there are those who might believe in souls, but in a pantheistic way. Personally, I cannot find any meaning in an eternal life. So I would certainly despair to find out that one could not die. How agonizing would such an eternity be. The thought makes one shudder...