By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:40:35 +0000

“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’”
– Annie Dillard

“Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?”
– Epicurus

“Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?”
– Ron Patterson

By: grimgold

grimgold — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:57:08 +0000

Hawk, what an excellent, excellent post. You have it exactly right. Religion is supposed to be an individual, personal, private part of one’s life. It’s not a matter of belief but of how we live and a result of inner exploration. My biggest beef with athiests is their lack of interest in non-physical things. Same with the Christians. The complacency that blind belief brings is frightening.
Athiests would strongly object to my calling them blind believers, but their stubborn pointing to the Christian version of God and saying “Look! See? That’s what I don’t believe in!” binds them to that belief system by their total objection to it. This is followed by a smug laziness, challenging everyone to do the work of proving to them that God exists or that their is anything to the non-physical. It’s not impossible, but very difficult to prove to a Marxist university professor that Man isn’t entirely mud…. sorry, I ramble on. Grimmy

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