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

To: Greg or e who wrote (25021)	12/15/2006 6:15:53 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"Your morally anachronistic approach" "For I am Yahweh, I do not change" (Mal. 3:6). The morality of the alleged God and the alleged participants in the story will be judged by my standards when I am stating my moral opinions. "If you admit God exists and commanded these things then there goes your Atheism doesn't it?" Surely, you misunderstand me. Far from being an admission of the existence of a Loving and Merciful God, my satirical comments mean to demonstrate how dense it is for one to invent such an anthropomorphic beast as representing some Universal Ultimacy. "In fact you arrogantly reserve the right to pass judgment on God while denying the same for the creator and sustainer of the universe." If we renounce the responsibility to judge what is or is not worthy of a creator, then we are no better than mindless sheep following beasts of tooth and claw. "Lets see according to you it is morally acceptable for a woman to kill an unborn child for nothing more than the sake of convenience" Abortion is a natural right of any woman. Therefore, it is morally acceptable for us to permit it. It is not always a decent or rational choice on her part--but it is always a rightful choice. "it is immoral for God to pass judgment" If the God invented by the Jews and modified by the Christians was/is based on a similar beast, then one either discounts the invention as obvious myth or one recognises that His attributed acts are spurious--or worthy only of something depraved and sinister--hostile to human values and interests. "The Canaanites practiced child sacrifice along with a host of other perversions. Are you saying that God does not have a right to judge such things????? A clear answer to this question would be most enlightening." I have a right to judge such things, and I am telling you that rape, murder, genocide, and infanticide are not an appropriate response to a maladjusted worship of Deity. Clear enough?