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26540, I won't pretend to speak for SH,
Posted by stravinskian, Thu Jan-27-05 08:19 PM
But I'm often confused, and a little perturbed, by this argument:
>>Why is he certain that there is an infinite
>>being?
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>Keep going... let's assume there is no God:
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>Why are you on okayactivist?
Why wouldn't he be? You seem to think that if someone doesn't "believe" in "God" (and again, I don't pretend to know anyone's beliefs, even my own), then it makes no sense for him to care about society. This is nonsense.
With or without God, there is still beauty. With or without God, there is still pain. We are completely aware of these things, we see them every day (which is more than I can say for God). We also know that they never take a completely local existence. If we assume there is no God, then IT'S UP TO US to increase the beauty and reduce the pain.
On the other hand, if we assume there's an all-powerful creature out there, we are tempted to leave all this difficult work to Him.
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