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To: Ronin
I think I like your thoughts on this!

364 posted on 10/21/2003 6:04:10 PM PDT by ladyinred (Talk about a revolution, look at California!!! We dumped Davis!!!)
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To: ladyinred
It's natural to speculate and it is something I have thought about a lot, as I am sure you have as well. To be cheerfully agonistic is to challenge God, if he exists, to manifest Himself in a way that can be rationally accepted.

What does that mean? In my case, simply, if God exists and wants me to worship him (silly notion) he knows my address and can ping me directly.

Beavas and I were quoting the Notebooks of Lazarus Long earlier, so I think I will throw out my favorite quote on the subject from there.

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Note here that Heinlein was not denying the existence of God, it is more of a dig at the organized religions and the people that run them.

How does that saying go? The first priest was the first con-man who met the first chump.

I won't quite go that far, but I was tickled pink by a t-shirt I saw a few weeks ago that said, God is too big to fit into any one religion.

367 posted on 10/21/2003 7:31:18 PM PDT by Ronin (Qui docet discit!)
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