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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:54 am Post subject:
Humans created god after their own image. God cannot be anything else than it's creator.
The more primitive and violent the culture was, including their inhospitable desert environments, the more blood thirsty their gods became. Reflecting the constant fight for precious resources, for survival.
The intolerance of monotheism to the more easygoing polytheism.
Contrast the "desert dogmas" to the eastern religions. _________________ “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” - Ayn Rand
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Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 716 Local time: 8:56 PM Location: Wales
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:
"Just enough to kill a horse" lol _________________ "One is all for religion until one visits a really religious country. Then, one is all for drains, machinery and a miniumum wage." - Aldous Huxley
"Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz
Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Posts: 4802 Local time: 6:56 AM Location: Richmond, Virginia USA
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:
pr126 wrote:
Humans created god after their own image. God cannot be anything else than it's creator.
The more primitive and violent the culture was, including their inhospitable desert environments, the more blood thirsty their gods became. Reflecting the constant fight for precious resources, for survival.
True. God us little more than an excuse to be a criminal. Always has been and still is. _________________ K Michau
Now this religion happens to prevail/Until by that one it is overthrown/Because men dare not live with men alone/But always with another fairy tale.
al-Ma'arri, Syrian Poet, died 1057
You deny the existence of 999 alleged Gods. I merely deny one more - yours.
John MacKinnon Robertson, "Godism" 1896
Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 1551 Local time: 4:56 PM
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:21 am Post subject:
pr126 wrote:
Humans created god after their own image. God cannot be anything else than it's creator.
The more primitive and violent the culture was, including their inhospitable desert environments, the more blood thirsty their gods became. Reflecting the constant fight for precious resources, for survival.
The intolerance of monotheism to the more easygoing polytheism.
Contrast the "desert dogmas" to the eastern religions.
Caste systems? Hello?
_________________ "Of the voluntary acts of every man the object is some good to himself." -Thomas Hobbs
"Those who are obsessed with practice, but have no science, are like a pilot out with no tiller or compass..." -Leonardo da Vinci
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