11-15-2010, 10:58 AM
(11-15-2010, 03:23 AM)kath3 Wrote: Gosh ... and how many times has this question been asked? Probably as many times as there are stars.That sounds like circular logic to me (he exists because we think he does, and we think he does because he exists) but each to his own. I don't have an issue with the concept of God, if it can help inspire hope, and really I can't imagine a world without him; as the most intelligent species on earth, we're aware of our mortality, and it terrifies us, so it's natural that we'd devise religion, simply to get us through the night, and answer the unanswerable. What I do take issue with is people using said concept to harm the innocent, justify their own sick bigotry and inflict their hatred on their world. I believe in the separation of church and state, as one man's beliefs should not affect a thousand more who don't share them. Like all this talk about keeping marriage "sacred." What does "sacred" even mean? Since when was love the property of theologians?
Maybe God is in fact the imagination of mankind ... maybe that imagination has been so strong that it has generated the energy of God into existence.
Sorry, now I'm just ranting
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"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe