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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
guess to me it just seems obvious that there is no God. A few minutes thought is all it takes. Look at all the religions with their very different takes on God/gods. Aztecs ripping the hearts out of babies to placate the rain god etc. They are primitive stories people come up with to explain the world. I see no reason why the Christian God, with his creating Jesus through a miraculous virgin birth etc. is in any way to be preferred to Zeus or Thor or whoever. Why should one set of stories be more true than another? Now, maybe one of them is right and the others wrong? Either way, all the "religious" people are rejecting a whole lot more religions than they are accepting!

Haven't read all 20+ pages, but wanted to respond to this comment.

I think this is a rather narrow view of God. This assumes that anyone who believes in God believes in one specific God and that God must be different from all the other Gods. There are many religions who are quite intolerant of other Gods (Christianity is one of them!) but I personally believe that God is complex enough to manifest in many different ways. I think he WANTS to be known to as many people as possible, and what appeals to one culture may not work for another. Maybe Thor and Zeus and Jesus and Allah are all the same guy.

And Quetzalcoatl? Meanwhile, the same jesus guy is all about ripping out babies' hearts in another place? Or training berserkers to rape nuns and monks? The same guy encouraging women to become nuns, and encouraging vikings to go rape them? Maybe Thor and Zeus and Jesus and Allah are all the same guy. If so, he has a serious case of multiple personality disorder, and needs medication, not worship. [/quote]

Aah, but you are mixing religion and politics here.  It is one thing to believe in a God, and quite another thing to use God to justify conquests.  You can believe in God without believing that God told us to invade Iraq.  It is quite possible there is just one God, but people are both using him as an excuse for fighting over Israel.  God probably has nothing to do with it.  [/quote]

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