On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Klaus Stock wrote:
inspired later Muslim philosophers and theologians. For example, the
Brethren of Sincerity
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brethren_of_Sincerity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Encyclopedia_of_the_Brethren_of_Sincerity
- full disclosure: I wrote those articles) took a position that the
Creator was unbounded in ability and attributes, and that to even
describe him in remotely earthly (or comprehensible for that metter)
terms was to commit a falsity.
Heck. At least visually God resembles a human, as the Bible tell us
so.
It all depends on what you think the Bible means when it says that man
was created in God's "image". Perhaps it means that we are spiritual
beings with the ability to create and make choices. This is one point
where some Christians would write me off as a raving liberal.
Darwinists however might conculde that this means very little, because
during the creation of the universe, apparently no complex structures
existed - so the similarities with God won't neccessarily extend
past the
basic structure/interaction of elementary particles and energy.
This discussion can of course be circumvented by adopting one of
the most
popular religious viewpoint ("kill all non-belivers").
By what objective measure is this one of the most popular religious
viewpoints? How many religious people have there been in the history
of the world? How many of them advocated or acted out this meme?
Without those numbers, you're just spewing bile, and I don't need your
bile all over my nice clean floors. :-)
The "kill all people-not-like-me" meme is present in persons religious,
but it is not peculiar to them.
Dave
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