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- From: jmunch@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (John Munch)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: I still wouldn't worship it.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.013107.158783@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 01:31:07 GMT
- Sender: jmunch@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (John Munch)
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- If some entity turned off the force of gravity for half a second today,
- then I would immediately become a theist, in the sense that I would
- say that god existed. I still wouldn't worship it. My first reaction
- would be to figure out how I might be as powerful as this god. If I knew
- there was some way to turn off gravity, I would want to know how to turn
- it off. Knowing how to turn it back on again would be helpful too.
- If this god said he wanted my "soul", I would ask him what the heck is
- a soul, and I'd tell him to keep his grubby hands away from mine. If this
- god said there is an afterlife and I had to choose between living in hell
- or heaven for all of eternity, I'd tell him that in this afterlife I would
- come and go as I pleased to where ever I pleased, and any entity that
- tried to keep me confined to only one place would get their ass kicked.
- I am not a violent person, but I am an individual. I will never submit
- myself to any other entity, no matter how much more powerful they are than
- me. If this god threatened my life, then I would do my best to kill god.
- I am saying all of this to point out that my atheism is much deeper than
- merely not believing in god. Thoughts?
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- -John David Munch
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