On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 07:21:46 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 8/28/13 7:37 PM, Tim wrote:
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 9:46:49 AM UTC-5, F.O.A.D. wrote:


The concept of what god is has changed, if not evolved, over thousands

of years, from celestial bodies to pieces of wood to rocks to statues to

some sort of unseen fatherly being and so on. But the idea of a god

still requires belief in the supernatural. I've not seen or read of

anything that proves the existence of the supernatural.



Like Ivan Karamazov, my disbelief in a supreme being "creator" is at

least partially based on the fact that innocent children suffer.



If you *know* all that, then why would you ask a question like-

"Aren't they all the same guy, gal, rock, piece of wood, statue?"

That is, unless maybe you really don't have a clue...



A clue about what? My posit is that all the "god entities" man has
created in his mind over the thousands of years he has been walking on
earth are the same. They just look different.

Aside from the "art" aspect, what is the difference between the god in
Michelangelo's fresco in the Cappella Sistina and, say, the Egyptian sun
god, Ra? They're both depictions of entities man created to make himself
feel better about himself and to try to understand what he was, at that
time, incapable of understanding from a scientific point of view.

And, of course, like Ivan Karamazov, I wonder why, if there is a god,
why that entity lets innocent children suffer.

The choice would be to prevent the suffering by stopping those who make them suffer. This would put
a lot of abortionists out of business along with a few dictators, et al.

John (Gun Nut) H.
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