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To: Eric Maggard who wrote (18016)	3/11/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Eric, You can be a parrot, or you can use your mind logically and rationally. Here is what you say you believe: 1. God is all powerful. 2. God knows all -- from before time to beyond the end of time. 3. God, who is all good, knows he will create Satan one day, who happens to be all evil. 4. Perfect good therefore creates perfect evil -- it can't be a mistake because God doesn't make mistakes, right? Besides, God knew before the beginning of time that he would create the ultimate evil. QUESTION: Are God and Satan the same? Two sides as it were to the same coin? 5. All humans who have gone to hell were created by God only to go to hell and suffer horribly for eternity. It is unfortunate that before time began God already knew all that would be in hell and that there WOULD be a hell. Therefore, God is the ultimate sadist as he creates beings just to suffer eternally. God has created a mad game. OBSERVATION: If a God exists as most Christians picture him, then that God is insane -- totally irrational. 6. Most incidents in the old and new testaments that are described as miracles are scientific phenomena that the ancients took as signs from God or Heaven. Much more, but I choose to spend my time on rational pursuits and not the 20th Century regurgitation of the writings of mystics and babblings of primitive savages. Father Terrence