> Doug Pensinger wrote:
> ...
> > >
> > > I am curious. How do you know it wasn't Satan?
> > >
> >
> > Or a phenomenon that is beyond our understanding, but in fact has a
> > logical explanation?
> >
> > Why is something you cannot explain automatically attributable to a
> deity?
Thats it. If you can't tell whenther or not it is God or Satan, then you also
can not tell whether or not there is some other unkown explination.
Many christians don't believe in Satan and Hell specificaly becouse of this.
They atribute everything they can not explain to God. But then it makes god
kind of phcytso becouse it is allways doing bad things.
Sometimes what at first looks like a good thing can latter be shown to have
been a very bad thing. So If you go around thinking everythign you can't
explain which only has "good fruit" is God, theneventualy God will burn you.
This sort of thinking leads to the belife that one was "tricked" by Satan.
But becouse the experience was so good to begin with, such people can never
again trust one "supernatural" experience.
This leads to acceptance of "fate" or some other such twisting to get out of
the logical quagmire. Eventualy it can lead to reason. For most intelegant
religously raised kids this happens sometime around 7 or 8. Othes still don't
find this very significant issue with christianity until they are much older.
In this case they often feel naked and abandoned and switch to Buhdism or
become acultists.
I have many relatives who atribute this sort of thinking to Satan. I truly
feel sorry for them.
This doesn't mean that God does not exist. I have no significant information
on the subject. But it does mean that if God does exist it doesn't meddle in
our lives. Or, it isn't such a good guy. Either way it is nothing to concern
onself with.
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