On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:05 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > *New religions I hold we do not need.* >
I hold we don't need the old religions either. > * > Skeptic Michael Shermer paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke, said: A > sufficiently advanced alien intelligence is indistinguishable from God." * > Not the Christian God I hope! I love the quote by biologist Richard Dockins from his terrific book "The God Delusion". “*The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully*.” John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> wno -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2E3BjSnp7PtSmE8gX3LfAEemn%3DwfxjciGiDFGjpNWGkA%40mail.gmail.com.
