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Originally Posted by FRYandBENDER
I don't particularily believe that God takes any kind of role in our lives. I just kind of think that "he" or "it" set everything in order and that it is up to us to make life better where we can. I thought the same way you do when my cousin died a few years ago. I can't know what makes you feel that way, but I've learned that most people that feel that way do so because something bad happened. Denying the existence of a God is anyone's choice, but it won't make anything any better; but sometimes, for some people, acknowledging that there is a God and a meaning and a purpose can make it better.
Anyways, I wasn't trying to say I have a problem with people being atheists, but how is an atheist saying that a religious person is stupid any different than a religious person saying that an athiest is going to hell? Do atheists hold their disbelief in God as sacred and personal as religious people hold their belief?
Any ways, I wasn't trying to piss anyone off. I just don't see how Elton John can say that religions should be banned, and then bitch about other people trying to ban or criticize things he believes in.
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My criticism was not directed at Deists, Pantheists,
and the like- those who believe in an impersonal God:
The Guy who made the watch, maybe out of himself,
or some such thing, but has never has anything to do
with the people who get ground up in the working parts.
Maybe so. I just think the introduction of God into Nature
adds an unneeded step, or level, whatever you want to
call it. If there was one Prime Cause, then Nature itself is
more economical than God's Creation of Nature. God is
an unneeded character.