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From: Chris Doss [mailto:itschris13 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wed 12/31/2003 2:51 AM
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Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] God's track record...
>I'd say, on the whole, that man is responsible for 99% of earthly misery.
>Why doesn't "God" put a stop to it? Maybe because "God" is not a big
>version of a benevolent parent who makes sure that the kids don't get hurt.
>
>As for the utter vulgarity of the concept of a personal "God," concerned
>with the exaltation and gratification of unconscious little egos, what can
>I say, except that it shows the childishness that underlies this concept of
>what "God" is about or for.
>
>Joanna
Yeah, how did people get so anthropocentric? (Standard historical
explanation: Christianity puts the salvation of mankind as the centerpiece
of its theology, then Christian theology drops out but idea of man as center
of the universe remains.)
I used to have a probably not-very-funny running joke with a friend that it
was obvious that God was really a giant squid and that human beings had only
been created to serve the squidocentric purpose of wiping out the sperm
whale.
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