[lbo-talk] The God Delusion

[joanna]

When my daughter was six, the mother of a classmate of hers died of 
cancer. My daughter chose to go to the funeral to help her classmate. 
The catholic priest who officiated at this funeral chose to tell 
everyone, including the young child, that the mother had died because of 
man's original sin.

For me, that's the single most horrifying "religious" tale I've ever heard.

But it says absolutely nothing to me about the question of God -- it 
only tells me about the awfulness of our state: the absence of love, of 
compassion, of humility, of intelligence. I just don't see how this 
reflects on the larger issue of how man can comprehend/relate to the 
infinite--that realm of reality to lies outside of his finite perception 
and experience.

Joanna