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To: MineralMan
I'm curious; you make such a clear case for the deity yearning in all human societies yet you claim to be absolutely certain there is no God represented in any of these societies?

Perhaps you're an agnostic ... you appear too intelligent to be an atheist.

246 posted on 08/01/2006 10:20:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN

"I'm curious; you make such a clear case for the deity yearning in all human societies yet you claim to be absolutely certain there is no God represented in any of these societies?"

Human beings have intelligence and are able to wonder about things. They wonder now, and have wondered ever since there were human beings.

They wonder about their own existence, the existence of the earth, the existence of lights in the sky. They wonder about what happens when they die, since humans are aware of the fact they they die.

There are other basic questions humans wonder about. None of them had any answers until fairly recently in human history. Human beings don't like questions without answers.

Some sort of deity or deities is the answer that is easiest to come to if there is no path to understanding the real answers.

Deities are also useful in other ways in human society. That's why virtually every society and culture on this planet has a deity or deities. Sometimes there's just one; other times there are many...one for each need.

It is that very act of creating deities to answer questions and fill needs that led me to atheism. I find deities extremely useful, but recognize that man creates them, rather than the other way around.

That is what I believe. Your beliefs may differ.


282 posted on 08/02/2006 7:13:04 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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