On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> John, Instead of God, what do you propose as a substitute for all the > awful suffering you have accurately, cited? That's asking a awful lot of me, I don't have a solution that will eliminate the suffering in the world. I wish I did. If I were God I would have made extreme pain a physical impossibility, but unfortunately I didn't get the job. > Marx said that religion is an opiate for the people, > And like opium religion is not a good long term solution to sorrow; for every person who is made happier contemplating the pleasures of heaven there are 10 made more unhappy contemplating the tortures of Hell. And then you've got millions of people saying they will kill you right now if you don't love God X and renounce all other Gods, and millions more saying they will kill you right now if you don't love God Y and renounce all other Gods. And both are saying their kind and merciful God will torture you for all of eternity if you don't love Him, even though there is absolutely nothing lovable about either of them. > What'dya think of Brian May? > I think you mean Brian Cox, he said " There is naivety in just saying there’s no God" but he doesn't say why it's naive except to say that some very very smart people have believed in God; and that's true. I think it's true because most people, perhaps even most very smart people, tend to believe what their mommy and daddy told them into adulthood, stuff they were told before they were potty trained. There is no other explanation for the enormously strong correlation between deeply held religious belief and geography. John K Clark -- 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.
