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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: wishful thinking
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 14:43:42 EDT
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> Some of the non-Christians in this group have repeatedly stated that belief in
> God is based on wishful thinking.  I differ with this idea.  If I had followed
> wishful thinking, I might well have bailed out of Christianity many times over
> the years, because I've wished that God weren't there or that He weren't the
> kind of God He is

But another preconception then takes hold: the preconception that there must
be a god who fits your perception of "the kind of god he (sic) is".  You may
at times wish to believe that god does not exist, but the other preconception
that he MUST (because ... ?) draws you back.
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						Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr