[lbo-talk] Question re: Religion vs "spirituality"

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Dec 5 17:00:46 PST 2005


boddi satva wrote:


>I don't know, it seems to me most of the time people assert God into
>their arguments without specifying the qualities of the God they
>hypothesize. It's not enough to say, for example, "a creator". You
>have to hypothesize how this God might have created. Most of the time
>people seem to posit "a creator with all the powers He needed to do
>whatever I think He did but in a way which is invisible" and that's
>ridiculous.
>
But sometimes it's very useful. Like you're coming and you say "Oh God, Oh God, Oh God!!!" because that way there's no chance of getting anyone's name wrong and hurting feelings, and no one will get offended.

Joanna


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