[lbo-talk] God's track record...

Devine, James jdevine at lmu.edu
Wed Dec 31 08:55:19 PST 2003


obviously, "god is a spider." (Ingmar Bergman)

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From: Chris Doss [mailto:itschris13 at hotmail.com]

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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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