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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jamey who wrote (10649)	4/9/2006 3:53:44 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

James > Most free willed spirits (like you) see what man has done to God and not what God has done for man. I have to take your word for that but it's certainly not my observation. Anyway, the bottom line is there's nothing stopping someone believe in God if they want to but in the privacy of their own minds. Thus my first objection to religion is that it makes out it has cornered God and made Him/Her/It into a marketable commodity which each religious division and sub-division maintains it has the exclusive right to sell. Secondly, that one has to enlist in a gang in order to allegedly have a relationship with God and this, by mutual exclusion, presupposes that if you are in one gang you are not in the others and therefore you have to make war with them. As I told you before, I consider that God is everywhere and in everyone and is accessible to everyone -- including atheists --anywhere, everywhere and at any time. I will further argue that if you do not accept this you do not believe in God but in a man-made image or concept. > If you could cross that bridge I believe that you could find enlightenment about the true nature of Christ and religion itself. Thank you for the kind offer but I prefer to be as I am -- a lost soul which will be condemned to the everlasting fire.