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To: DesScorp
re 71: they've substituted one god for another.

So, your faith is in "one god"? Do you have a particular one in mind? Or merely the one god that you choose to "believe in".

As you know, there are many, many claims to know "the one true god". Since there are so many equal claims from zillions of believers, all of them are equally silly. Gods and religions are man-made; humans make up gods as they imagine them, so "man in God's image" is clearly a false notion.

Shamans, priests, witch doctors, pastors, preachers have promoted this notion in claiming to represent the 'god', but they contributed little to understanding the world. They have benefited themselves a great deal getting alms and dollars in return for doing little productive.

Rain-gods, gods of traffic; gods of sex; gods of cholesterol; gods of blood-pressure; gods of family connectednesses--these gods seem much more important. Gods of abstinence seem rather weak and irrelevant.

Faith healers, exorcists, psychics, send-money-for-a-one-way-ticket-to-heaven is a familiar theme.

It is sad that so many are addicted to such beliefs.

78 posted on 05/27/2006 10:13:57 PM PDT by thomaswest (Just curious)
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To: thomaswest
It is sad

I (and God) find it amusing that atheists presume to think in such infinitudes, when there is no "it" there to be, e.g., sad.

79 posted on 05/27/2006 10:17:26 PM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: thomaswest
So, your faith is in "one god"? Do you have a particular one in mind? Or merely the one god that you choose to "believe in".

Or, perhaps, it is a concept some Hindus believe that all gods and all versions of God are aspects of One. It is simply that no individual is capable of seeing all aspects of the One at the same time.

81 posted on 05/27/2006 10:28:28 PM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian (Give a choice of things to believe in, I tend to choose the most interesting.)
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