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- From: kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt Klingbeil)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:42:28 GMT
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- To: brian@lpl.arizona.edu
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.religion.misc
- References: <1992Dec27.073652.5991@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec28.122831.21650@walter.cray.com> <1992Dec29.163307.21853@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- On the topic of ORIGINAL SIN and how GOD who created ALL doesn't
- mete out DEATH and SUFFERING, but rather is content to allow PEOPLE to
- CHOOSE it for themselves every day, and wash HIS hands of the whole mess:
- ;-)
- Oh Boy....
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- God would condemn an entire species to a previously unintended state of
- suffering and death because of the actions of one (two) people, who
- admittedly weren't responsible anyway since the 'devil made them do it'?
-
- Think of the quantity of biomass that would exist if no living thing
- ever died. Where would all those lions get all that grass ? (seeing's
- how they'd have to share it with all those various and sundry herbivores).
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- Everything in creation lives and exists in cycles.
- Birth and Death, being fed and becoming food.
- Intricacy, beauty, and balance, bestowed by the creator;
- an eternally sustainable dance.
- [ Perhaps just a hastily tossed-together post-FALL afterthought ? ]
-
- Only people, for all our claims of spirituality, intelligence,
- reverence, civilization, religiousity, dare to disregard, disturb,
- despoil, and destroy the creator's dance, and those people who
- try to dance along. Only people arrogantly reject creation's ways
- as too base for their delicate and oh so reverent sensibilities.
-
- Heaven and Hell are right here, right now.
- The most civilized and spiritually-correct things we people can
- try to do are to stop bemoaning 'Paradise Lost' or waiting for
- 'Paradise II' or clawing our way UP to (perceived) higher planes
- of existence in all sorts of specie-ist, ethnocentric ways...
- and to start getting in touch with where we live, who we live with
- and live near, and taking better care of them.
-
- Naive eh?
-
- ttfn, k<Alt-253>
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