--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Hey Curtis, > > I pasted a link to a short 5 minute video created by my friend > Dennis Prager, talk show host, on what he considers the most > important verse of the Old Testament with regards to God, meaning, > and nature. You may find it interesting, food for thought: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_-E2OfFjpg
So much idiocy and suffering over the centuries, just because humans can't deal with the concept of "eternal." His entire theory depends upon there being not only a made-up thing called "God," but a made-up thing called "the beginning." If one merely postulates an eternal universe, one without beginning or end, then there is no need for a "creation," and no need for a "Creator." The entire need for "God" seems to come down to humans being unable to keep from projecting the it-began-and-someday-it-must-end-ness of their own puny lives onto the universe. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > "When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship > > > > > nothing but worships everything". > > > > > > > > What a fantastic quote! > > > > > > > FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > You do realize the quote is not recommending that one > > > stop worshiping God, but rather the opposite, right?--- In > > > > I didn't have any context for the intention of the author but found it fit > > my experience of dropping theism pretty well. I guess I had it all wrong. > > Doing a bit of research and finding this version: "The first effect of not > > believing in God is to believe in anything." > > > > I disagree with this statement and will have to do a bit more digging to > > see what was meant. I don't see how seeing God as a man made myth makes > > you more gullible, it made me less. > > > > What I found appealing in my mistaken impression of the first quote was > > that appreciating the world more was one of the results of me dropping out > > of theism. Life itself became holy in a naturalistic sense of the word. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In this day and age why would anyone follow a guru? > > > > > Enlightenment? Liberation? Burn Karma? Not likely folks, > > > > > wake up and smell the chai > > > > > > > > > > To quote the great GK Chesterton- > > > > > > > > > > "When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship > > > > > nothing but worships everything". > > > > > > > > What a fantastic quote! > > > > > > You do realize the quote is not recommending that one > > > stop worshiping God, but rather the opposite, right? > > > > > > (Also, it's not actually from Chesterton, but that's > > > another story.) > > > > > >
