From: "Robert Comer" 

> It's about this "god" idea.  Now - most of the sentient
beings I talk to
> consigned this "god" idea to the same dumpster they threw
Santa Claus and
> the tooth fairy in shortly before puberty.  Can anyone explain to me why
> this mythical creature invented during periods of extreme boredom in a
> desert 5,000 years ago - and from whom nothing has ever been heard -
> should
> determine any aspect of modern life?
>
> (I leave out of these comments the great contributions of Christ - a man
> who
> undoubtedly lived and I would love to have met - and Mohammed, ditto.)

Just because you don't believe doesn't mean others don't.  And frankly, if
you take that God part out of Christ and Mohammed God caused inspiration,
and then admire them for what they did is quite odd, if there were no God
they'd be the biggest liars in history.

--
Bob Comer


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:45092143$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060913/2006-09-13T230611Z_01_L1341215_RTRI
DST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BLAIR-DC.html
>
> "Blair, U.S. President George W. Bush's closest ally in the so-called war
> on
> terror, said the world urgently needs the United States to help tackle the
> globe's most pressing problems."
>
>
> Well, fine.  But the most interesting bit comes later:
>
> "'The strain of, frankly, anti-American feeling in parts of European
> politics is madness when set against the long-term interests of the world
> we
> believe in,' he said."
>
> I'd like to pick out "the world we believe in".
>
> It's about this "god" idea.  Now - most of the sentient
beings I talk to
> consigned this "god" idea to the same dumpster they threw
Santa Claus and
> the tooth fairy in shortly before puberty.  Can anyone explain to me why
> this mythical creature invented during periods of extreme boredom in a
> desert 5,000 years ago - and from whom nothing has ever been heard -
> should
> determine any aspect of modern life?
>
> (I leave out of these comments the great contributions of Christ - a man
> who
> undoubtedly lived and I would love to have met - and Mohammed, ditto.)
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>  +44 7833 654 800
>
>

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