What does the word 'God' mean to you?

Subject: RE: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:59 PM

I don't know ernest c, you're the only one who sounds like they're fighting to me, so far.

Carol

Subject: RE: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:57 PM

Thought you humans believed that He is Love...sounds like a lot of hate from the last two postings....My God is fine by me...Plays Pan pipes really well and rescues little otters in distress.

Know where you are with my God.....Doesn't confuse the issue with grey bits....Very black and white is my God.....you are either good and live forever or bad and dont....Simple....

Spot.

Subject: RE: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: GUEST,ernest c
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:55 PM

This is just another one of those divisive threads to further split an already fractured group. Why must we talk about politics, religion, and other controversial topics? No one ever really wins by making their point. They just cause someone else to react negatively to them.

You are some rather naive if you don't know where this thread will lead. It will lead to arguments and bad feelings. So I ask, why are we doing this to ourselves? I think we ought to stick at least a little closer to music, and not go looking for fights. Of course, if you want to fight, then go ahead. But I still think that just because you can do something is not reason enough to do it.

Subject: RE: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:54 PM

Never use it in the singular and always with goddesses, too, except where noted in the last appellation...much prefer Great Spirit/Cosmic/Higher Self/Mother-Father God of My Heart

Subject: RE: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:47 PM

I react badly to it. I tend to expect it to be used to support irrational authoritarianism. THere can be little doubt that some religiously inspired persons have done good, but all too often the appeal to God is a banner for some awful atrocity on the national or individual level. The Roman Catholic CHurch in England seems to be strongly linked with child sex scandals, and the brutality of many sorts of protestantism hardly bear rehearsing, although they pale into insignificance beside the horror of the inquisition.

Subject: RE: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:37 PM

I don't use the word god, except inapropriately. I prefer the word "divinity". To me "god" has too much bad historical baggage.

Carol

Subject: What does the word 'God' mean to you?
From: Zebedee
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 06:33 PM

I've no idea where this thread may lead, but it's asked in good faith and out of curiosity.

To me, God is a relic of a previous age, a useful way of explaining the unexplainable, and a comfort when things go wrong. Sometimes I wish I believed.

Over to you

Ed