Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: wishful thinking Message-ID: <1185@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 14:43:42 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.1185 Posted: Thu Oct 4 14:43:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 03:46:14 EDT References: <1289@pucc-h> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 13 > 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. -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr