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To: mrs9x
Oak Hay... How many Freepers believe in God ???

I surely do !!!

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22 posted on 11/02/2003 12:51:45 PM PST by GeekDejure (<H3> Searching For The Meaning Of "Huge" Fonts !!!</H3>)
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To: GeekDejure
The problem I see with asking who believes in God is in the assumption that everyone else is Atheist and/or Marxist/Evil/whatever. I'm agnostic. I don't believe in God, but I don't believe there IS no God either.

The way I see it is that all morality is relative -- with the religious it comes from clergymen and books, as no two people can agree on what God is, so there is no true immutable source of morality (just my opinion).

I do believe in good and evil. 'Good' is doing what is helps the individual, whether or not it personally benefits you. 'Evil' is doing what is good for you, especially if it hurts other people. Bush: Good; Hillary: Bad.

I could spend a long, long time refining and expanding that statement to clear up any potential confusion. But I'm too ill at the moment to do so.

I also believe that if God exists, perhaps he deliberately does not make Himself known to certain people, so that they will act as checks against religion run amok, or, in the case of Satanists and pagans, so that they will serve as reminders to the faithful of what lies at the end of the slippery slope. Perhaps God does not like his followers to know him TOO well, or get too full of themselves.

If I could be assured that religious debates would remain civil, I'd participate in them a lot more frequently. That I do not is not an indication that I lack conviction, merely that I lack the stomach for the nastiness that too often ensues (making both believers and nonbelievers alike look pretty small).

33 posted on 11/02/2003 1:05:38 PM PST by TrappedInLiberalHell (Talking about racism is not racist. Being afraid to talk about racism enables the real racists.)
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To: GeekDejure
How many Freepers believe in God ???

Not very many on the "science" threads...

58 posted on 11/02/2003 2:07:13 PM PST by NewLand (The truth can't be ignored...)
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To: GeekDejure
Those that do not can NOT have a relationship with Him! How sad! I guess not many have the holy spirit.

MCD
71 posted on 11/02/2003 2:52:52 PM PST by MSCASEY
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