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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whenever somebody brings up Thor, Zeus, fairies, etc, I really can't decide if they are just extremely stupid or extremely rude.  Do you really think modern religious belief is equivalent to believing in fairies?  Do you really have such a very low opinion of us, and such a very high opinion of yourself?  Do you just enjoy denigrating people?  Or can you really not see there is a difference?  When you typed those words, did you feel clever or cruel?[/quote]

I felt curious.  I know there are differences, and also that they all have something important in common -- they are all supernatural and were once (or currently) believed in by many people .  A major difference is that "God" is the supernatural being that most people believe in currently and even the the currently popular God is defined differently by different people. God has different traits and different demands depending on which religion he represents and sometime depending on an individual's perception.

There is nothing denigrating about mentioning Zeus or Thor or any other god, unless you think some ancient people were stupid to assume that there was a supernatural being looking over them, protecting them and having certain expectations of them.   We can't prove there is no God and we can't prove that one is better than the other -- only that different people believed in them at different times.[/quote]

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