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- From: ethridge@bnr.ca (Allen Ethridge)
- Subject: Re: searcher
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.173904.3041@bnr.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:39:04 GMT
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- In article <92357.110824BLD110@psuvm.psu.edu> <BLD110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >The post that John A. Johnson answered on the unfairness of life, was in answer
- >to someone who asked what questions had caused me to leave the church and to
- >search for answers. John gave three reasons why these injustices might exist.
- >>(1) the creator does not care about fairness; (2) we are to dim to perceive
- >>the fairness; or (3) there is no creator being.
- >
- >I would put forth a fourth alternative - our religious forefathers just
- >didn't get it and their idea of God which we have been indoctrinated with
- >has made it extremely difficult to perceive beyond rejecting what is
- >absolutely unacceptable to us. Not only do we hold God up to show how
- >His presence is detectable physically - but we hold Him up to the old
- >paradigm. Talk about shoting ourselves in the foot.
- > Betty Lee Dowlin
- > 92355.234647BLD110@psuvm.edu.
-
- Everytime i read one of your posts i get more confused. You seem to want to
- reject conventional notions of god but still retain a god-concept. You think
- it's a mistake that we should expect god to be physically or scientifically or
- logically verifiable, but if so then how do we distinguish between knowledge
- of this god and delusion, hallucination or mental illness? What other
- criteria can we use to know of this god and what does it mean to say that
- such a god exists? What is the new paradigm we should be considering in
- place of the old one and why should we call it god?
- --
- allen@well.sf.ca.us
- ethridge@bnr.ca
- my opinions are my own
-