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- From: twpunix@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Tim Parsons)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: searcher
- Message-ID: <3341@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:38:01 GMT
- References: <92355.234647BLD110@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Organization: Dept. of CS Ball State University Muncie IN
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- In article <92355.234647BLD110@psuvm.psu.edu> BLD110@psuvm.psu.edu (Betty Lee Dowlin, Choice, AC) writes:
- >I looked around me and saw people I loved living in ways that according to the
- >church would cause them to be condemned to hell forever. Now I could see the
- >beauty, love, and worth of these individuals and I wondered that I had more
- >love and compassion than God.
- > [STUFF DELETED]
- >lost her in the end anyway. Now I wondered why. Why would life be set up in
- >such a way that someone seemingly picked at random would have to endure such
- >pain.
- > [STUFF DELETED]
- >And I wondered where is the fairness here? Where is the everyone is created
- >equal? What kind of a set-up is this?
- >
- I can understand exactly what you're saying. There comes a point where one
- must choose (assuming you've been able to see the world with sufficient objec-
- tivity) between seeing a God-given order so foreign as to be essentially mean-
- ingless, and seeing a total absence of humanly relevant order. Insofar as it
- relates to daily life, I see litte difference. One order affects us with a
- nonrandomness that appears random, the other affects us with true randomness.
- Even if my intellectual nature gave me a choice (which it doesn't, given such
- paucity of theistic evidence), I would rather believe in a blind universe than
- in a god so removed from my concerns as to appear blind. If we are supposedly
- created in God's image, why such disparity between our concerns and its?
-
- Tim Parsons
- twpunix@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
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