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echo: r_catholic
to: Ray Fischer
from: stumper
date: 2007-03-25 15:52:20
subject: Re: God is everything.

From: stumper 

Ray Fischer wrote:
> stumper   wrote:
>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>>> God does not have to have any physical characteristics.
>>>>>> That's probably what it means when they say
"God is a spirit."
>>>>> I am always entertained when people make assertions
about the nature
>>>>> of a supposedly infinite being that they've never seen.
>>>> God is everything there ever was, is, and will be.
>>> An impressively arrogant pronouncement from an infinitesimal speck in
>>> a corner of a limitless universe.  Not unlike a bacterium on my nose
>>> asserting that the president of the United States listens to its
>>> prayers.
>> Actually much more than that.
>>
>> The universe is aware of itself
>
> .... asserts the bacterium.
>


Through humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

But I would rather go for a non-theistic interpretation if even Bishop
Spong is willing to try it that way. "Jesus for the
Non-Religious", ISBN 0-06-076207-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_Spong

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~Stumper

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