--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've long thought that organized religion as a whole is most
> vulnerable to
> attack on the basis of one core religious concept: idolatry. Each
> religion
> make the same self-contradictory claim that: (a) God is beyond
> human
> understanding, and (b) this particular religion (a human
> institution)
> understands God very well. It can thus be said that those who
> follow this
> religion, whatever it may be, are not worshipping God at all; they
> are
> worshipping the fallible, limited understanding of God that this
> religion
> serves up. In short, they are worshipping the religion, not God,
> and that
> by definition is idolatry.
>
> So, it can be argued that only agnostics are God-fearing people.
> They alone
> respect the Almighty in all Its infinitude. They do not purport to
>
> understand what is unknowable. Hence, those who argue against
> religion are
> the truly religious, QED.
Carl, you're just a closet Unitarian.
Heh.
- Deborah