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To: LLCF who wrote (3725)	4/20/2010 12:54:39 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Seems all sorts of people noticed religion has attempted, throught the ages, to make people fearful... and therefore further their own institution. Like people who make people fearful of acid-filled oceans, rising seas, global warming caused volcanos and earthquakes, melting polar ice caps, non-organic food, genetically modified food? As for religion making people fearful, fear is a natural reaction to both death and the possibility of facing an all-powerful divine being. <Since his time we have a century of history that shows irreligion and cruelty go hand-in-hand even better.> Could be... I doubt it. As I"ve said before, religions seem to mirror the society they are in, no better, no worse. IN OTHER WORDS, they are no more holy than any one else. Christianity ended the killing of people for amusement in the Roman coliseums, ended the esposure of infants, and ended slavery in the Roman world. Then after it allowed slavery to return in overseas colonies, it outlawed it a second time. <Another guy second-guessing God.> Actually if you read his quote... he's speaking about a very specific VERSION of god. Maybe it lines up with YOUR god... (as all atheists must) so you didn't notice? I think he's talking about the idea of God PERIOD, not simply one conception of God: "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - Gene Roddenberry