Ed, > This is the one that always gets me. People wonder how > I can say > that there is no God; since that is truly unknowable, shouldn't I be > agnostic and simply say that I doubt it? Yet when I ask them if they > believe in Thor or Zeus or Shiva, they are 100% certain that those > gods don't exist. Nothing agnostic about their feelings, but somehow > I'm supposed to be that way toward their particular fantasy.
That's where we differ, I guess. In my mind there must have been some root to the Thor and Zeus and Shiva stories. I don't know what the root is or why, but I'm guessing there was something that started the myth so my mind is not completely closed to any of the myths. I'm probably more mystical than the typical Christian, though... And I don't believe in exclusivity when it comes to God. Nor do I believe in an eternal hell. I don't think I ever did. It never made sense to me that God could have enough hate to create an eternal hell, and the text in the Bible that was used to back it up didn't read that way to me. Kristyne McDaniel www.mcstyles.com www.shamrocktrails.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
