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To: LLCF who wrote (185)	8/11/2005 10:21:13 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26251

>>That's based on your egoic idea of what god should be<< That's your apology. Not mine. I live in a human-all-to-human world. I hold humans responsible for their actions and don't accept divine excuses or explanations. Whether God is dead or alive is irrelevant to me, for I sold my soul to learning and my allegiance to Humanity a long long time ago. In 1966, I was thirteen years old and with my girlfriend on the beach watching the beautiful Mediterranean Sea when she said, "wouldn't the world be a better place to live in if everyone took their love for God and gave it to each other, to Humanity". I thought about that for a few minutes and said, "yes". "I'm going to experiment and take away my love for God and give it all to women for a year". That was the happiest year of my life so I decided to include all of Humanity the following year. I never looked backed.... God is basically used as a drug for those who are miserable. I wonder: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then where does evil come from? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Religion basically consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space, time and you. Faith is believing something you know isn't true. Think for yourself.