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Thread #131699   Message #3025269
Posted By: Ed T
06-Nov-10 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
"YES.   People are entirely capable of simultaneously worshipping many different "gods" and even many different gods which in some regards contradict one another. They do it just by focusing on whichever one they want to at the moment and not thinking about the inconsistencies. That even happens within an organized religion like Christianity, which is itself rife with inconsistencies and has, like the Nazis, sometimes committed great crimes against humanity".

Let's take reference to God an put in government in it's place (as I have done below) to see if the conclusion drawn holds true. IMO, they seem much the same.
Could it be that humans use organizations to do wrong? I submit that a belief in a God, nor a non belief, on their own, have little to do with the crimes against humanity?


YES.   People are entirely capable of simultaneously worshipping "many different forms of government" and even many different "forms of government" which in some regards contradict one another. They do it just by focusing on whichever one they want to at the moment and not thinking about the inconsistencies. That even happens within "an organized government, like democracy", which is itself rife with inconsistencies and has, like the Nazis, sometimes committed great crimes against humanity.