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- From: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adam Trent Phillips)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: I still wouldn't worship it.
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:25:25 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, ednclark@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Jeffrey Clark) says:
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- >jmunch@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu (John Munch) writes:
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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?
- >
- >Hey, I'd be cheering, I always like to go for the underdog!
- >
- >Jeff.
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- I agree...like the song by Motorhead, just because you got the
- power, doesn't mean you got the right.
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- A. TRENT PHILLIPS |" A mirror is a negative space with a frame and a place for
- also known as | your face, it reveals what the rest of us see. It conceals
- WHITE ROOK | what you'd like you to be."--Blue Oyster Cult
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