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To: Brumar89 who wrote (624304)	8/14/2011 3:06:25 PM
From: Sea Otter	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

Interesting points, Brumar. What you say could be true, I've thought along the same lines many times. Seems logically possible, but as to how it could be proven I have no idea. As I said, I'm open to idea but don't "believe" as I haven't seen the evidence. And I know (deeply) how delusional human beings can be. I was raised in a strict Christian family and when young was sure I had all the answers. But even then I noticed an absence of god - saw lots of personal tragedy, lots of unanswered prayers etc. Where was this god I keep hearing about? The only time I had a personal "experience" was when I was with some indians in New Mexico over a summer college camp. A weird thing that I haven't repeated since, but it did get me to thinking. I've read that some early Gnostic Christians believed the universe was made by the devil, thus explaining the problem of evil and suffering. God himself stood separate from creation, pure and holy. Interesting notion intellectually, but hardly an idea to stir one's heart. Go back a few decades and those moral well-behaved Japanese were behaving pretty badly at Nanking and other places. The well-behaved Finns were fighting under the swastika Well, that's a good point. Certainly history shows that any people can be capable of going quite insane. But do the religious ones go less insane? Arguable. Over history I don't see any particular advantage there, one way or another. Human beings seem prone to "movements" that justify anything. Some of these movements are religious and some secular. We're a flawed species.