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To: allmendream
None of the good Mother Theresa did was dependent upon her ascribing supernatural causation to physical phenomena.

On the contrary. Mother Theresa believed in God, and thus ascribed the very existence of matter and energy to a spiritual cause. Without her faith in God, she would very likely not have done the things she did.

She didn't say that people were hungry because the devil lived in their bellies - she fed people real physical food to alleviate their real physical hunger.

Indeed, because she believed the God who created her had told her to.

That is a big no no to those who would rather rely upon a supernatural explanation.

Perhaps I misunderstood your original point, then. My impression of what you were saying is that any belief in the supernatural (i.e. God) was silly.

Believers in Christ know that God created the laws under which the physical realm operates, i.e. when your body needs fuel, you experience hunger. But that is because God created things to work that way.

If your intent was not to mock belief in God in general, then I apologize for the misunderstanding.

41 posted on 07/21/2011 9:03:15 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody

I believe in God.

God created me “from dust”, but not through using magical supernatural powers. DNA and cellular processes were both necessary and sufficient to create my body and my brain. That doesn’t mean that God did not create me. I was created by God “from dust” and “to dust” I will return.

Right now stars are forming through gravity and nuclear fusion. God created those stars, just as HE created all things - but he didn’t need magical supernatural forces to do so. Gravity and nuclear fusion are both necessary and sufficient to explain the creation of Stars. Yet God created those stars.

I believe and worship God, why would I mock him?

I mock the ‘god of the gaps’ who created a shoddy reality that supposedly needs constant supernatural intervention in order for things to ‘work’.

That is not God.


43 posted on 07/21/2011 9:52:14 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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