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(October 20, 2012 at 3:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: In what way would those answers differ from the believers answers?
Show of hands, to any believers interested in responding...is god not what you wish for him to be? Do you wish that god was something else? Anyone?
For believers of world religions...Well, they do not envision their God. Their vision of God has been pre-molded for them. They just need to pour the material they have been given into it. To each accordingly, the material could be as frail as glass, or as hard as steel.
Those who only believe in the concept of God, they too, cannot manufacture them according to their own will. For you cannot manufacture a sword without knowing what a sword looks like.
Neither can you manufacture a goblet, without knowing what a goblet is or what it's made of.
The concept of God is quite similar to this.
Unless you arbitrarily define a sword or goblet as whatever you want to define them as. Most people (well, all sane people, anyway), for instance, do not agree that it is okay to kill someone for working on a Sunday. They knowingly ignore the passage that says it must be done, and perhaps even decide that that passage is incorrect. People have defined god as omni-benevolent even though he clearly is not. Under the assumption that god exists, these definitions would be meaningless, but when one considers god as one of humanity's creations, then these redefinitions make perfect sense.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
