No. no. no. Neither agnostics, nor theists, neither deists (Bruno) reject a personal God for pure reasons. They (you) reject a revealed God because you reject his revelation, that is, the eartly moral precepts. You have no problem with other religions as long as there is no moral obligations in the pack. More precisely, you fight the moral precepts of the religion of the ones around you. Other gods are good as long as they compete with the one you are concerned with. You don´t launch your ridicule teapots against Alá. That would be a fault against the Holy Tolerance.
Something so repetitively and obsessively reexamined can not have a pure, intelectual, ontological reason behind. It is a practical reason: Simply you need the inexistence of God in order to feel free to do what you want. As the Satanic Bible of Alister Crowley said: "Do what Thou want. That is the whole of the Law" You are not against God, you are against the order created by God. That one of you will not steal, you will not lie. You will not kill, You will love even your enemy. Because you either want to steal other people (trough legal tricks perhaps), you want to lie your couple and others, you think that sometimes is good to kill, or maybe you want to hate freely... and feel no remorsement for all these things. It is more: you need other people to disbelieve in God, since you can not steal, kill, hate etc confortably if the other people face you with the charges of your precept violantions. But that order created by God does not dissapear when you negate God. Because that is the order of Nature. The ten commandments are a treatise on Natural Law and the future of you and your society will collapse if you don´t follow them. Look at the History. 2014-07-09 22:12 GMT+02:00, John Mikes <[email protected]>: > I apologize for taking a new title for this over-discussed topic. > Somebody (sounds like Bruno, the fonts look like Brent) wrote: > > "...let us do theology seriously instead of referring to fairy tales. > You confirm what I said to John Clark. *Atheist* defend the God of the > bible. Read Plotinus, forget the bible, unless you find some passage > you like and which inspire you, but that is private, don't make that > public. " > > I refer to the generality about 'atheists' in the passage. I > emphasize that I am no atheist in such a sense who IMO requires 'a god > to deny' (my vocabulary includes the term as 'denying' instead of > 'defending'). > > I simply exclude those facets which are beyond our reach at present. > In speaking about Everything I think of an infinite complexity of > components we cannot even understand (today) - nor the relations > between them ALL. We include SOME into our 'model of the world' as of > yesterday without knowing if we are right. > > In such sense even a (sane-minded) adilt can be an 'atheist'. > > John M > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
