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Thread #117438   Message #2532138
Posted By: Little Hawk
05-Jan-09 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Atheists: No 'so help me God'
Subject: RE: BS: Atheists: No 'so help me God'
Which God indeed? ;-) That's always the question, isn't it? There are a million different versions.

But yes, I think that God is definitely pro-choice and always has been, but that's just my personal view of it, you understand. The Pope can think whatever he wants, I don't care about that. I don't think of "God" as messing in human affairs...just providing the entire field of play, as it were, and the basic rules and parameters of the game, the things that must be dealt with and the things that can't be avoided, such as...

- the free will of others
- a great variety of types and attitudes
- gravity
- birth and childhood
- eventual aging and death
- entropy
- atomic structures
- light
- physical substance
- different forms of energy
- gender (in some, not all, forms of life)
- conscious awareness
- the various physical limitations we all must deal with, we who have physical bodies at present...

and so on...

Those aren't a matter of choice. You simply have to play with the hand you've been dealt. But after that...you are totally free to choose how you play the game. The moves are yours to make freely.

That's freedom of will, and that makes God pro-choice. God isn't the problem in life, you see. Not at all. ;-) Other people are the problem!!! Or so it seems....(?)

The real truth that matters, though, may be only this: the one really significant problem you will ever face in life is your own personal attitude toward the experience...and toward others.

(And that is why I suggest not blindly attacking religious people...or people of any general category...as if they were all the same. They're not.)