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I liked this post…and I liked the responses it created. I had this same thought myself a few years ago…and then I realized it had already been done. But I also realized something else, if God were put on trial, he would simply say, “I AM…all that there is, and despite want you think about me…Existence (right now) could not be possible any other way…this is the way that it works...this is the only way that things can exist”. I then realized that I like “Existence” …with it’s good and it’s bad…I therefore, chose "Existence" over Nothingness…any day of the week.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on July 5, 2004 at 9:25 PM
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i tain't god'sf ault
genesis says god created people in his (mental) image.
doesn'
t say bodily -- bodily is evolutionary descendancy
but many writers about god like to create god in their image.
make god do what they want god to do.
make god a him and a leader of armies.
they worship the dominant warring male who protects his people
god ain't that
but they make that into god.
anybody see?
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 11, 2004 at 9:42 AM
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You touch on so many subjects
that I have difficulty balancing. A god of war and eternal torture is inconsistent with the love of God I have in my heart. I do not fully understand the violence of the Old Testament except for the theory of God using the Isrealites as an example of what doesn't work. Not much doing unto others as you would have them do unto you in the Old Testament.
posted by
Budmannomore
on June 11, 2004 at 3:55 AM
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you wanna say something about sin -- everyone else is.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 9, 2004 at 7:38 AM
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Intriguing observations. You are right. People sure do put a lot of faith into a terribly hypocritical and violent God. No wonder they trust the government so easily! The eastern religions have a more realistic view of their deities or spirituality.
posted by
michellerenee143
on June 8, 2004 at 10:18 AM
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yer rite
nobody can deny that this god ranks right up with all the other mass murderers.
not much better than Baal and the Ninevite gods and Babylonian or Egyptian gods. wars have been fought in all of their names -- kings and pharoahs prayed to god and praised whatever god was popular or was theirs for their victories.
this god was certainly taken right from the others.
funny thing, it keeps on.
almost from the second century of our era onward, people have been killed and tortured in the name of god and in the name of Christ.
Mohammed and his followers conquered in the name of god.
then the crusaders enslaved the Balkan peoples and sacked Constantinople and massacred Jew and Eastern Orthodox Christian alike and then killed a few Moslems to take Jerusalem in the name of god.
The colonies and England had the same Anglican god.
In the Civil War, both the Union and Confederacy prayed to the same god.
In the World Wars, both sides prayed to the Christian God.
Dylan wrote a song, "With God on our Side". That's a good representation.
looks like god loves war all right.
posted by
Xeno-x
on June 7, 2004 at 4:50 PM
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