Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to Ross Sauer:

 RC> Every civilization has had some sort of religious belief, even if
 RC> paganistic by todays standards, yet you find religion absurd, yet all
 RC> these different cultures had them.

Every culture, not civilization.  In any case they use religion to explain what
they cannot understand or control.  Over long periods of time the system(s)
can and often do become quite complicated.  Science, particularly modern
science, has managed to come up with demonstrable reasons for a lot of the
things that used to be attributed to 'the gods.'

One has to wonder, since most religions claim to be the personal representatives
of God on earth and therefore are acting as His agents and at His direction, why
those same religions cannot be held financially liable for 'acts of God.'

There was a recent court case in Omaha where former state senator Ernie Chambers
(boy does the US congress deserve HIM) filed a lawsuit against God.  It was dismissed
because the dunderheads couldn't figure out how to serve the summons.  All
they had to
do was hand it to God's senior local agent/representative in the area,
Archbishop Eldon Curtiss.

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